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1L Expirence: One-Ls wearing suits<br />
The 1L experience became somewhat more formal this week, as students lined up for yearbook photos and section receptions with Dean Clark.
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Congressmen to CEOs: HLS’ LL.M class<br />
Harvard's newest crop of 142 LL.M. students hail from 58 countries, with backgrounds ranging from professors, judges, politicians and national Supreme Court clerks to CEOs and a former police corporal. Reporter Lea Sevcik profiles 6 students from this year's class.
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Senator Boxer defends vote on Iraq resolution<br />
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-California) recently visited Harvard Law School. She spoke to a crowd of about 200 students on issues ranging from terrorism to the Green Party to the fight between Republicans and Democrats over confirmation of President Bush's judicial nominees. The speech was the HLS Democrats' first major event of the year.
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HLS to open new pro bono office<br />
The Law School's new mandatory Pro Bono Service Program, headed by former LIPP and Summer Public Interest Funding Director Lisa Dealy, will require students to undertake 40 hours of uncompensated public interest work as a prerequisite for graduation.
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Gay, lesbian students cast wary eye on OCI<br />
Harvard's gay and lesbian students face a recruiting process with a shabby pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Though no firms explicitly follow the U.S. military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, not all make clear the atmosphere and policies that gay and lesbian lawyers will find at a firm.
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Fenno: A day at HBS<br />
Twenty-somethings wearing Ralph Lauren sat facing the front of the room, where the three-dimensional image of a white-wigged man smoking a pipe was projected by a laser array out of the floor behind the podium. Thelonious Monk was being piped over the P.A. system through Bang & Olufsen speakers while men in tuxedos circled the room with silver trays carying champgne cocktails in fluted glasses. . . . Fenno visits HBS.
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Concert Calendar: Music on the fly<br />
Jeff Leven surveys the musical offerings of New York, L.A., and D.C., dedicating his article to those lucky enough to be enjoying a free vacation on a law firm's dime. Also be sure to check out the mini-bar in that free hotel room...
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Vino & Veritas: The Pennoyer of Wine<br />
French wine is daunting, even for JOSH SOLOMON the RECORD's intrepid wine columnist. But this week he takes wine in the land of berets and baguettes. From syrah to marsanne to pinot meunier, Vino & Veritas translates all you need to know.
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Soundtrack of our (flyout) lives<br />
Having survived the OCI juggernaut more or less intact, the average 2L can safely place the heady, angst-drenched on-campus interview process behind them and look forward to the heady, angst-drenched Flyout Week process. Adam White offers suggestions on how to ease the travel tension.
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Stu’s Views<br />
Cartoonist and Harvard Law alumni Stu Rees takes a humorous look at the legal profession.
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Only for the Eye Candy<br />
Other than cute leads, Traffic screenwriter Stephen Gaghan's directorial debut Abandon falls flat, with a predictable plot and underwhelming character development.
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Inman Square’s taste of Morocco<br />
It's Saturday night, and you need to eat. While you would like to avoid having to take out a loan in order to pay for dinner, at the same time you do not want your dining experience to open with your waiter writing his name in crayon on your paper table cloth. Where do you head? ERIC CZEPYHA thinks you might want to check out Argana.