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Winter 2017
Features
The Influencers
There is perhaps no other place in America where a lawyer’s ability to mak...
From Congress to the Pentagon, from the State Department to public broadcasting, in law enforcement agencies...
“I, Ellen Huvelle,
Do Solemnly Swear”
Known for her legendary efficiency and human touch as a judge of the federal...
She has decided the fate of an alleged Somalian pirate, forced the release of Guantánamo detainees, ruled t...
The Impact Generation
Making a difference takes on many meanings in Washington, DC, where tens of ...
LANCE WADE ’02 A noted criminal defender restores a businessman to his former life. Lance Wade repre...
Docket
An Energy Law Pioneer
Tom Burton saw the future in green technologies....
Pocket Résumé Tom Burton ’96 Founder and chair of Mintz Levin’s Energy Technology Practice. In Deep W...
Bringing Good to the Neighborhood
A native daughter takes on Riker’s challenges, and more....
Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark, a 1983 graduate of BC, is the first woman district attorney of Bronx C...
A Charitable Sleight of Hand
Madoff launches an effort to fix the wrongs of donor-advised funds....
PocketRésumé Credentials AB with honors, Brown; JD, LLM in taxation, NYU. Practice Private tax law prac...
A Catalyst for Good
Dana Borelli ’17 beat early trials to find strength as an advocate....
Student Snapshot Provenance: Grew up in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, in a loving family challenged by a di...
Capital ‘L’ for Lawyer
Washington, DC, is a city like no other for members of the legal profession....
As these facts and figures suggest, metropolitan Washington, DC, which encompasses Washington, Maryland, an...
It Takes More Than Steel to Modernize a Navy
Secretary Ray Mabus builds a legacy of equality, humanity....
Among the accomplishments that Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus said he was most proud of was improving the q...
Protector-In-Chief
A glimpse into the life of a Solicitor General. ...
During a turn last October as Distinguished Lecturer of the Rappaport Center for Law and Public Policy, form...
Around the Academy
Charles J. Ogletree Jr. and Kimberly Robinson: The discrimination law scholars discussed The Enduring Legacy of Rodriguez: Creating New Pathways to Equal Educational Opportunit...
Esquire
Reunion Weekend 2016
The weekend of November 4-5, jam packed with campus tours, lectures, panel discussions, law reviews, receptions and—biggest of all—class dinners, broke attendance records, draw...
Surviving Southeast Asia’s ‘Shark Tank’
James Bitanga ’06 learns where an open mind—and a little luck—can take...
While it is true that BC Law can take you anywhere, few young alumni quite embody that notion like James Bit...
Light the World Gala 2016
Donors gathered October 6 for a black-tie celebration at Cadigan Alumni Center to mark the close of the Light the World Campaign, which raised $63.9 million, nearly $14 million ove...
Loyalty Rewarded
Drinan Society honors donors who give every year....
For Kenneth S. Prince ’75, two related courses at BC Law inspired his career path. Prince, who has been gi...
In Every Issue
The Choice
Words are malleable. How will we shape them?...
Recently, I heard a segment on National Public Radio’s “Story Corps” in which a ninety-four- year-old ...
The ‘Wall of Silence’ as Shield
When police guard themselves, communities suffer....
Social media, police body cams, and other technologies have increasingly exposed the troubled relationsh...
Contributors
Stephen Voss, Photographer Voss lives in Washington, DC. He has been recognized by American Photography Annual, Communication Arts Photography Annual, and the White House News Pho...
What a Time to Be
in Washington, DC
Here we are in the early weeks of a new administration in Washington, DC, one that aspires to change the customary order of things. And here you are reading the new edition of BC L...