Featured Alumni
At age six, Song Kim ’13 moved with her family from Korea to the United States. “We lived in an immigrant community, which was like an extended family,” she says. “And I became quickly aware of the ways that being a part of the non-dominant culture…
When Tess Bridgeman ’10 began her job as an attorney advisor in the US Department of State’s Office of the Legal Adviser, she was glad that she had kept her old notes from NYU Law courses such as War, the President, and the Constitution, taught by…
The first time that Cedric Merlin Powell ’87, then an undergraduate at Oberlin College, read New York University’s motto, he knew where he wanted to pursue public interest law and pedagogy. “I was so attracted to that idea, to ‘a private university…
Even before Superstorm Sandy hit New York City in 2012, Miranda Massie ’96 had a mounting sense of the importance of addressing climate change. She was already working on issues of environmental law and policy as then-interim executive director of…
After a year when the coronavirus pandemic changed much about the practice of law, Ken Frenchman ’99 joined several long-time colleagues in making a big change of their own: starting their own firm.
Ken Frenchman '99
On January 5,…
As a student teacher during his dual bachelor-master’s degree program in education at the University of Virginia (UVA), Rafiq Kalam Id-Din II ’00 began to formulate an idea for a new model for education, one that would restructure schools to better…
On August 27, Shawna Baker LLM ‘15, was sworn in as a justice for the Supreme Court of the Cherokee Nation, one of only three women to have served on the court. A former law professor and the founder of Tulsa’s Family Legacy & Wealth Counsel, a…
Robert Hayes ’77 first became interested in issues affecting the homeless population as a young reporter covering social issues for the Long Island Catholic Newspaper. Then, as a student at NYU Law, Hayes struck up conversations with the men whom he…
As a 2L student in the Family Defense Clinic, Sienna Fontaine ’07 learned early on that her clients often needed more than just legal representation.
“The clinic was a piece of my understanding of how low income families, especially families of…
Valerie Radwaner ’87, deputy chair at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, attributes much of her success in private practice to the legal education she received at NYU Law. Radwaner, who in 2014 became the firm’s first deputy chair after a…
Jeffrey Wolf ’88 started his career as an entrepreneur while attending NYU Law. “I knew from a young age that I wanted to start cool companies,” says Wolf, who as a 1L launched National Coverletter, a service that aimed to make it easier for…
Throughout his career, Robert Nelson ’87, a partner at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, has been willing to play the long game in order to get results for his clients. Nowhere has he demonstrated that more clearly than in the litigation…
Ara Tucker ’04 was an art history and visual arts major at Princeton University when she decided to become a lawyer. But she also knew that it was important for her to continue to make art.
“I was very deliberate in choosing [NYU Law], because I…
In June 2019 Hadestown, produced by Tom Kirdahy ’88, took home eight Tony awards, including Best Musical, and this year the show added to its honors a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album. Kirdahy’s award for Hadestown was his first Tony…
When Todd Arky ’98 joined SeamlessWeb as executive vice president for sales and business development in 2000, he had no sales force. Leaving his position as an associate at Arnold & Porter to join a brand-new startup was a leap of faith. By the…
Sonia Lin ’08 began working in the field of immigrants’ rights shortly after the 9/11 attacks of 2001 as a paralegal case handler in the Immigration Law Unit of the Legal Aid Society in New York. “I saw…the effects of the backlash against immigrant…
Small cases can teach big lessons. As a law student, Grasford Smith ’05 trained as a mediator with the NYU Mediation Organization, a student organization in which law students learn dispute resolution techniques and have the opportunity to apply…
Since 2012, the Chinese government has implemented a far-reaching anti-corruption campaign. For companies operating in China, internal anti-corruption and compliance are more important than ever before, meaning lawyers like Bingna Guo LLM ’02 are in…
When Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation in July reforming New York’s existing green roof tax abatement program, the legislative framework came largely from a proposal outlined by Danielle Spiegel-Feld ’10. In an article in the NYU…
Early on in his career, Eric Berry ’08 recalls, he was torn between his interests in law and technology. As a student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), he worked on the Human Genome Project, the research program that first mapped…