Story Archive

To help celebrate this year’s graduates, alumni offer words of counsel and encouragement.

A pioneering civil rights lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund who argued 10 cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, Motley was the first Black woman to serve as a federal judge.

His pathbreaking career was nearly crushed by McCarthy-era ostracism, but Paul Robeson’s voice, in song and speech, continues to be heard in support of Black freedom.

A prosecutor, classicist, and Marine veteran, the Manhattan assistant district attorney has set himself the herculean task of cleaning up the trade in stolen antiquities. 

The Richard Borow–Irell & Manella Scholarship, jointly established by the Irell & Manella Foundation and Morgan and Helen Chu, honors the memory of Richard Borow ’59.

For Valentine's Day, meet five alumni couples who met and fell in love as students at the Law School.

For nearly two decades, Hunt was an unsung power player in Washington. Then he was thrust into the limelight by the Mueller report on Russian interference in the 2016 election and, more recently, by the House Select Committee’s investigation of the January 6 attack on the Capitol.

Over the past year, alumni have published nonfiction books covering legal topics from climate change to voting rights to the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Put down the casebook! This year, alumni published a shelf’s worth of new fiction.  

As prosecutors or defense attorneys in civil and criminal cases, or as independent counsel examining internal workplace matters, alumni are specializing in one of the legal field’s hottest and most fascinating practice areas: investigations.