Featured Alumni
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…
When Ndidi Oriji ’03 graduated from NYU Law, her mother gave her an unusual gift: a piece of construction paper with the summary of a play-pretend court case she had written as a child—inspired by the television show LA Law—to settle a dispute…
As a Root-Tilden-Kern scholar at NYU Law, Johnathan Smith ’07 knew that he wanted to use his legal career to fight for civil rights and racial and social justice. Ten years in, Smith has wholeheartedly devoted himself to those causes, having worked…
Chantá Parker ’06 works to improve the country’s public defense systems.
Chantá Parker ’06 defines herself as a “helper.” And it is through this lens, she says, that she relates to the world. That disposition led Parker to NYU Law, where she…
John Walker ’93 had spent the majority of his career as a partner at Dentons—a multinational law firm that employs more lawyers than any other firm in the world—when he decided to embark on a new venture. Walker joined Jennifer Yu Sacro, then a…
Meeropol advocates for prisoners’ rights and the constitutional rights of Muslims
In the final hearing of the Obama administration, the US Supreme Court heard arguments in Ziglar v. Abbasi, a case 15 years in the making for Rachel Meeropol ’02,…