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BY ANDREA SAENZ On Friday, September 14th, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales '82 stepped down from his post, ending a term marked with a number of scandals and power struggles between the Department of Justice, the White House, and the Congress. A number of Harvard Law students were pleased to see Gonzales finally leave office.
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Did you miss Dean Elena Kagan's 5th "State of the School" speech on Monday? No problem: The Record took notes for you. Greatest hits included: - Dean Kagan, in a spiffy cream blazer, zipped through the speech in under 40 minutes, in time for everyone to make their 1 pm classes.
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This summer marked the innagural effort of a new form of charitable giving at HLS. One Day's Work encouraged law students to donate a day of their summer salary to a charity of their choice. Co-Organizer Alec Karakatsanis, '08, answered a few of the Record's questions about the project.
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When Anusha Rasalingam graduated from Harvard Law School in 1999, she headed off to New York City to pursue her dream of being an attorney. Fast forward three years to 2002. Rasalingam is having a bad day, and it is just one of many. Experience has taught her that it's career-defeating to say "bite me" or "you suck" or "buzz off" to the people ruining her day.
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BY MARK?WEBER Assistant Dean for Career Services As we head into the fall On-Campus Interview Program (OCI), the Office of Career Services would like to de-mystify the process and help you prepare for the intense, exciting, and busy weeks ahead. Harvard Law School's OCI is the nation's largest on-campus interviewing program.
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By ALEXA SHABECOFF Assistant Dean for Public Interest Advising I. Look Before You Leap At the Office of Public Interest Advising, we believe that practicing law is about more than making a living or representing clients competently and ethically. We believe that what makes law a profession, rather than simply an occupation, is a personal commitment to equity, fairness and the common good.
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As the Registrar's office opened bidding on firms for OCI last week, hundreds of 2Ls contemplated the age-old question, "Do I want to work in New York? Or D.C.?" Some brave students even considered working in California. Don't get me wrong. I was in much the same place last year.
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Choosing where to work after law school is a daunting task. Even if you focus only on private law firms, the choices seem endless. Many students pare their list by focusing on the largest firms in New York, Washington, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Believe it or not, there is life outside of the huge Biglaw offices in major cities.
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Two days before the long Fourth of July weekend, Summer Associate Mouse woke up with a splitting headache, vague memories of a booze-filled firm-sponsored cruise and a knock-down-drag-out fight, and a burning desire to get out of town. It wasn't that he thought he had done anything wrong, per se (and a quick visit to legallyrodents.
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With myriad course programs and extracurricular options offered by the Law School - not to mention the debt incurred chasing a first professional degree - one might wonder what would motivate a student to pursue a second degree in their relatively short time in Cambridge.
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This summer was full of legal gossip big and small, from rising firm salaries in secondary markets to summer associate misbehavior to the saga of a big firm's leaked publicity song - its really, really bad publicity song. The man behind the blog, David Lat of Above the Law (www.abovethelaw.com), talked to the Record about his role at the helm of a "legal tabloid."
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Seven new full-time professors join Harvard Law School's faculty this fall to create the largest number of full-time faculty in HLS's history. In addition, the law school has hired five new clinical professors, some of whom began teaching last spring. The Record is pleased to welcome the newcomers.