On July 19, 1984, the Democratic National Convention officially nominated Geraldine Ferraro, a first-generation Italian-American lawyer and Congressional Representative from Queens, for vice president of the United States. A 1960 graduate of Fordham Law School…
A Little History from Pub. L. No. 106–225 Let’s agree that legislative drafting is a fine art that not many in Congress—or in Congressional offices—get exactly right. And sometimes, even reading through statutes with a…
Who Was the Bewigged, Berobed John Watts? Visit New York City’s Trinity Church graveyard looking for famous lawyers of eras past, and you will likely first see a greening statue of an authoritative figure looming…
William the Conqueror, the Battle of Hastings, and the Lawyer Writer who Figured It All Out As some in the legal community contemplate the transferability of skills they picked up in law school—as gainful employment…
An Approachable Courthouse in County Mayo The Old Courthouse on Abbey Street in Cong, Ireland now serves as a tourist office. The Proclamation of the Irish Republic is displayed outside, as it is at other…
Law Firm Announces College Scholarship for Disruptors At a moment when Harvard is moving beyond the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT), when many of us who have reached a certain distance from our own law…
Thoughts on the Passing of a Lawyer, Convict, Crusader, Human Somewhere in the sphere of women I admire floats Lynne Stewart, whom I first became aware of in the 1990s. She seemed then one of…
The Life and Death of Roe v. Wade Class Action Plaintiff Norma McCorvey Obituaries of the recently deceased Norma McCorvey, perhaps best known as the class action plaintiff pseudonymously named Jane Roe in the Supreme Court…
Marking the Passing of E. Clinton Bamberger Say you happen to be standing trial for murder. Let’s suppose that somehow you got yourself entangled in a bit of a mess and that you weren’t alone when…
I’ll admit that, when snorkeling in the Galapagos Islands a few years back, that old saw about sharks granting a lawyer a reprieve due to professional courtesy did cross my mind. The shark I saw…
