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Lester Pollack: An Illustrious Record of Leadership

After serving 10 years as chair of the Law School’s Board of Trustees, Lester Pollack ’57 will step down on October 3 and become chair emeritus....

Debating New York’s Judicial Elections

New York has a unique system of nominating its candidates for state trial court: Political parties hold behind-closed-doors conventions to select who runs in judicial elections....

A Guardian of Providence

One horrific night in April 2005, four people, including a police detective sergeant, were shot in Providence, Rhode Island. The perpetrator was in one hospital room...

Breakdown on the Bayou

Native New Yorker Billy Sothern ’01 became acquainted with New Orleans as a summer associate at a capital defense nonprofit agency, where he worked alongside idealistic...

The Collector

Spend an hour with Martha Stark ’86, and you’ll come away with little doubt that she’ll find a simple solution to any complex problem presented to...

Welters Named New Chair of Trustees

Just three decades after becoming the first person in his family to graduate from college and pursue an advanced degree, Anthony Welters ’77 will become the...