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Fostering Justice

One morning last year, Karen Freedman ’80 took a short walk from her offices on Lafayette Street in lower Manhattan to the white granite fortress that is...

Planting Seeds

Fayetteville, North Carolina, native Brandon Buskey ’06 had a lot to adjust to. New to New York, new to public interest law, he was a tad intimidated...

Creative License

In a unanimous and controversial 2012 ruling, the US Supreme Court held that Prometheus Laboratories could not patent a method of determining whether a patient is receiving...

Minding Other People’s Business

In today’s environment of Flash Boys and its adrenaline-pumped tales of high-frequency trading, success is measured in nanoseconds. It is easy to forget that trading systems not...

Turning Detroit Around

Overwhelmed by $18.5 billion in debt, the City of Detroit sent out a rescue flare last July. The resulting municipal bankruptcy—the largest in history—presented lawyers and...

The Keys to Success

Among even the most talented and capable professionals, a particular quality moves certain people ahead of the rest. Some might call it confidence, a deftness in...

Closing Statements

They don’t make careers like Gerald Rosenfeld’s anymore. One of Wall Street’s top mergers-and-acquisitions advisers for more than three decades, he got his start at McKinsey,...

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