First-generation law students on average spend more time studying, earn slightly lower grades, and graduate with higher debt loads than classmates whose parents graduated from college, according to a new story. The Law School Survey of Student Engagement released its first-ever in-depth examination of first-generation students. The study found that first-generation students make up 26% of law students nationwide, and it highlights the additional challenges many face, as well as the need for law schools to provide flexibility and added supports for them. Read more about the survey.
More from the legal industry …
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Moves:
In New York …
Vedder Price added partner Kate Buckley to its finance and transactions group … Michael Saarinen joined Lowenstein Sandler’s investment management group as a partner from Shearman & Sterling … IP litigator Mary Jean Kim joined Fox Rothschild as of counsel from Loeb & Loeb … Tarter Krinsky & Drogin expanded its real estate and commercial leasing capabilities with the addition of partner Edward Goodman … Golenbock Eiseman Assor Bell & Peskoe added Sarah Kaehler as a partner in its corporate, M&A and private equity practice from Weil.
In Washington, D.C. …
Avi Perry, the head of the DOJ’s team in Washington tasked with prosecuting market manipulation and fraud, left the agency to join Quinn Emanuel … Morrison & Foerster hired the leader of Perkins Coie’s D.C. office and its securities trading and market practice, Valerie Dahiya, as a partner … Boies Schiller Flexner added a trio of partners in D.C., Los Angeles and San Francisco, including the former attorney general of Arizona, a lawyer who worked in–house at Twitter (now X) and a bankruptcy litigator who has had a second career as a film producer, and financier.
In Boston …
Partner Bryan Natale joined Dentons’ venture technology and emerging growth companies practice from Burns & Levinson.
In Michigan …
Barnes & Thornburg picked up environmental partner Scott Watson from Warner Norcross & Judd in Grand Rapids.
In Charlotte …
Womble expanded its real estate practice with the addition of a partner and two of counsel.
In Ohio …
Ohio Attorney General Dave Yost tapped a Jones Day associate and former clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sam Alito to serve as the state’s next solicitor general.
In Denver …
FisherBroyles added partner Patricia Ho, who focuses on IP, commercial litigation and transactions, from Sheridan Ross.
In Orange County, California …
Haynes and Boone picked up litigation partner Elizabeth Weldon from Snell & Wilmer.
In Portland …
Wilson Elser added six partners from Lewis Brisbois.
In Tokyo …
Herbert Smith Freehills hired energy partner Lachlan Clancy from King & Spalding.
In London …
Investment funds partner Gawain Hughes joined Pillsbury from Morgan Lewis.
And finally …
Ropes & Gray promoted 20 new partners.
