Featured Alumni
When Bart Stichman ’74 first began working on behalf of veterans rights more than 40 years ago, he recalls, “veterans were really treated as second-class citizens.” Judicial review of decisions made by the US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) was…
In late March, fast food giant McDonald’s announced that it would no longer lobby against minimum-wage increases at any level: federal, state, or local. The decision came with seven states already set to raise their minimum wage to $15 per hour by…
As a politically active college student at Swarthmore in the early 1990s, Phil Weiser ’94 decided to go to law school after a mentor told him a legal education would help him work in public service. He chose NYU Law based on a meeting with the then-…
After graduating with an undergraduate degree in business from the Wharton School, Steven Feldman ’87 saw many of his peers going directly to jobs on Wall Street. He decided to pursue a law degree instead. Feldman credits his mother—“a woman of…
Before she had even graduated from college, Radha Natarajan ’03 helped prepare an oral argument for the US Supreme Court. Among the cases she worked on as a legal assistant for voting rights attorney Joaquin Avila was Lopez v. Monterey County: Avila…
Nine years ago, Noah Waisberg ’06 was an associate at Weil, Gotshal & Manges, working primarily on mergers and acquisitions, securities, and private equity matters. Like many corporate associates, he spent a lot of time on due diligence for…
At only 38 years old, Kyungchun Kim LLM ’14, a partner at Lee & Ko in Seoul, Korea, is already an experienced hand at billion-dollar deals. Described by colleagues as a quintessential “problem solver,” Kim has used his talent for constructing…
If you visit the Minetta Tavern on MacDougal Street, among the vintage photographs and caricatures decorating the walls, you can find a picture of the restaurant’s 1969 softball team, featuring Jeff Furman ’68 and several of his NYU Law classmates.…
As a student in Bessemer, Alabama’s segregated public schools, Solomon Oliver Jr. ’72 did not envision a future as a federal judge. At the time, he says, “there were very few African-American lawyers, and I did not know any.” And the law was only…
Katie Watson ’92 wears multiple hats. In addition to her legal education at NYU Law, she has also trained as a volunteer doula, an improv performer, and a medical ethicist. And she has built a career that allows her to combine all of these interests…
When Jeffry Aronsson LLM ’79 was an NYU Law applicant in 1978, he received a call from the Law School’s admissions office, very close to the deadline, with worrisome news: The school had not yet received his transcript. Aronsson got on a plane from…
Natasha Merle ’08 says she can’t recall ever having spoken to a lawyer until she went to law school. No family members or friends were lawyers. What brought her to law school, she says, was a desire to build a better society. “I could’ve helped…
The first thing that Justine Olderman ’98 noticed about The Bronx Defenders, she says, was its open interior architecture. When Olderman interviewed there in 2000, after finishing a federal clerkship in the Southern District of New York, the public…
Early on in his career, as an associate at Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, Jeffrey Yin ’98 did some work on the public filings for a small, relatively new company called The Knot, a website geared towards engaged couples planning their weddings.…
As senior vice president and general counsel of Clayco, a real estate, architecture, engineering, and construction firm, Carmen Hernandez ’87 regularly works on multimillion-dollar building projects. Her latest project, however, is a personal one:…
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Nathan Wessler ’10 scored a major win in his first appearance before the US Supreme Court, arguing and prevailing in Carpenter v. United States, which the New York Times describes as “one of the biggest Fourth Amendment cases in…
Joshua Briones LLM ’01, managing member of the Los Angeles office of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, grew up in California, the son of immigrant parents who worked on farms. As a child, he remembers waking early to work with his parents…
On August 25, Andre Segura ’06 was in his home in Houston watching the news as Hurricane Harvey bore down upon the city, when it was announced that the president had issued a pardon for Joe Arpaio, former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona. Segura…
Nicole Friedlander ’01 likes to solve complex problems—the more challenging, the better. “The cases that I enjoy the most are the most complicated, the mysteries, because it’s rewarding to be able to solve and explain them,” she says. In her career…
When Melissa Tidwell ’03 was a student at NYU Law, one of her favorite courses was Current Constitutional Issues, taught by the late Professor Derrick Bell. One of the highlights of the class, she says, in addition to having the chance to “sit in…