The following law students are participating in Friedman Kaplan's 2007 summer associate program:

Kate Mann (Stanford '09) graduated with highest distinction in 2006 from the University of California, Berkeley, where she majored in English and linguistics and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. She wrote her thesis on "Truth and Beauty: Creation, Creativity, and the Play Drive in Friedrich Schiller's On the Aesthetic Education of Man and Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, Night and Day, and A Room of One's Own." At Stanford, she is an associate editor of the Stanford Journal of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, a legal fellow of the Stanford Immigration Pro Bono Program and a contributor to the Stanford Judicial Review Project.

Kelly Smith (Chicago '09) graduated cum laude in 2004 from Amherst College, where she majored in economics and wrote her thesis, which was awarded magna cum laude honors, on "Who Benefits from Early Decision? How Early Decision Policies Affect Resource Distribution and Students at competitive colleges." She worked on the Amherst Student newspaper, of which she served as editor-in-chief in 2002-2003, and she won the Samuel Bowles Prize for Journalism in 2004. She was also a member of the Amherst ski team. Before law school, she worked as an associate analyst in the Antitrust and Intellectual Property areas of NERA Economic Consulting.