FKSA is pleased to announce that the following four summer associates will be participating in the firm's upcoming summer program:

Blair R. Albom is a first-year student at Stanford Law School. She graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 2007, where she majored in Political Science and Judaic Studies and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Blair served as Chief Foreign Policy Editor at the Brown Policy Review from 2005-2007. During the summer of 2005, she served as an intern for U.S. District Judge Kimba M. Wood of the Southern District of New York. At Stanford, Blair is a Member Editor of the Stanford Journal of International Law and volunteers with the Domestic Violence Pro Bono Program.

Ryan R. Kirk is a first-year student at The University of Chicago Law School. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of South Carolina with a B.S. in Economics, Finance, and Management and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Between college and law school, Ryan traveled extensively throughout Asia, studied the Chinese language at Southwest University for Nationalities in Chengdu, China, and worked as a professional poker player in China and Malaysia. At the University of Chicago, Ryan is a Maurice Walk Centennial Scholar and a member of the China Law Society and the Hemingway Society.

Alexander D. Levi is a first-year student at Harvard Law School. He graduated magna cum laude with an S.c.B. in Applied Mathematics-Economics from Brown University and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He worked as an intern in the litigation department of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP during the summers of 2005 and 2006. Alex is Online Editor at the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology.

Joel Wertheimer is a first-year student at New York University School of Law. He graduated magna cum laude from Tufts University with a B.A. in Philosophy and Quantitative Economics. Joel received Highest Thesis Honors at Tufts for his senior thesis, which was titled Free Will and the Moral Justification of Punishment.