2008

Blair R. Albom (Stanford '10) 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 (Chicago '10) 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 (Harvard '10) 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 (NYU '10) 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.

2007

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, and has been 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, the worked as an associate analyst in the Antitrust and Intellectual Property areas of NERA Economic Consulting.

Ronni Weinstein (Columbia '09) graduated cum laude in 2004 from Williams College, where she majored in art history and American studies. During college, she spent a semester abroad in London, where she studied art history and British studies through the IES London Center and the Courtauld Institute of Art. Before law school, she worked as a paralegal at Lankler Siffert & Wohl LLP. At Columbia, she is a member of the Entertainment, Art, and Sports Law Society and the Columbia Law Women's Association.

2006

Jacob Goldstein (Columbia '06) graduated magna cum laude in 2001 from Harvard College, where he majored in classics. While in college, he worked as a speechwriting intern for President Clinton and as a research assistant for a Member of Parliament. He then received a master's degree in Classics from Oxford, where he wrote his thesis on "Rhetoric of Athenian Litigation Speeches." At Columbia, where he is a James Kent Scholar, he has served as an editor of the Columbia Law Review and the Journal of Law & the Arts. He spent the summer of 2004 as a judicial intern to Judge Richard A. Posner of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit and Judge Gerard E. Lynch of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Kristen Campbell (Yale '08) graduated with highest distinction in 2001 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she majored in English literature. She then worked as a Legislative Assistant to Representatives Marge Roukema and Frank LoBiondo (R-NJ) before earning her master's degree in English Literature from Washington University in St. Louis. Before entering law school, she worked as an investment team assistant at the Global Environment Fund. At Yale, she has served as an editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review and has been involved in the Temporary Restraining Order Project.

Jordan Lang (Columbia '08) graduated magna cum laude in 2003 from Amherst College, with a double major in political science and "Law and Social Thought." He earned a master's degree in European studies as a Fulbright Scholar at Universiteit van Amsterdam in the Netherlands and then received another master's degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics. He has served as an intern at the United Nations Security Council and at the Kosovo Education Project at American University in Bulgaria, and as a copywriter for an encyclopedic web site.

Jennifer Nam (Columbia '08) graduated magna cum laude in 2002 from Princeton University, where she majored in politics and wrote her thesis on "'Disposable' Women: Prostitution and Politics in South Korea." She continued her research on this subject as a Fulbright Scholar in South Korea, where she also taught English and American culture at a Korean high school. Before entering law school, she served as a senior consultant on Booz Allen Hamilton's Global Security Team, where she worked on the Department of Homeland Security's First Report to Congress on coordination of homeland security efforts in the National Capital Region.

2005

Jonathan Seibald (Harvard '07) graduated with distinction from Cornell University in 2003, with a B.A. in government and economics. As an undergraduate, Jonathan was active in politics. In 2000, he worked as an intern for the Hillary Clinton for Senate Campaign and for the Office of U.S. Congresswoman Nita Lowey. In 2002, Jonathan interned for the Majority Staff of the Senate Finance Committee in Washington, D.C. He also interned for the McCall for Governor Campaign in New York.

Vikram Thomas (Harvard '07) is an editor of Harvard's Journal of Law and Public Policy. He graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University in 2003, with a B.A. in economics and statistics. During college and prior to beginning law school, Vikram worked as a finance analyst at Lehman Brothers where, among other things, he facilitated compliance with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements concerning expense reporting transparency and authored firm-level expense reports for quarterly and yearly filings with the SEC.

2004

Reuben Teague (NYU '05) was a research assistant to NYU Professor Barry Adler and is co-chair of the Citywide Unemployment Action Center. He graduated cum laude from Princeton in 1999 with an A.B. in economics. For nearly two years after college, Reuben was a senior associate in the Strategy Group at Computer Science Corp., where he wrote business plans, constructed financial models, and conducted market research. He then worked for a year in Washington, D.C. as a policy analyst at Public Citizen, the lobbying and legislative consulting organization.

Nina Vanderbeck Fletcher (Columbia '06) graduated magna cum laude from Yale in 2002, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. At Yale, Nina was awarded the Ethel Childe Walker Prize for Exceptional Artistic Development, and was staff photographer and production assistant for the Yale Daily News. After graduating from college, Nina served for a year as a legal assistant at Daily News, L.P., where she worked in the legal department of the Daily News and U.S. News & World Report. Nina is a marathon runner and has completed both the Chicago and Baltimore Marathons.

2003

Iciar Garcia (Penn '05) graduated from Harvard magna cum laude with an A.B. in history and literature, concentrating in modern France and Spain. She worked as a translator and aide at Philadelphia VIP Legal Services, which provides pro bono legal services to low-income clients. Iciar spent the summer of 2001 as a press intern for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. She has fluency or proficiency in Spanish and French, with reading knowledge of Portuguese and Italian.

Yair Jason Listokin (Yale '05) is a John Olin Foundation Law and Economics Fellow at Yale. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1998 with an A.B. in economics and received a Ph.D in economics from Princeton in 2002. Yair has worked as a teaching assistant at Princeton and a researcher at Harvard and Rutgers. He has also published papers in such leading publications as the Journal of Law and Economics and the Journal of Legal Studies.

Yusuf Rangwala (Yale '05) graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Princeton with an A.B. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. In the fall of 2000 he attended Oxford, where he concentrated in British foreign policy. During the summer of 2001 Yusuf was a student intern at the U.S. Department of State, evaluating the execution of U.S. foreign policy at various embassy posts abroad. He has also worked as an investor relations assistant at Alexander Capital, L.P., an international market-capital equities investment fund.

Jason Sussman (Columbia '05) is enrolled in the A.I.L.E. program at Columbia, where he will receive a combined B.A./J.D. degree in May 2005 after a total of six years of study. He had a 4.0 GPA following three years of college, with a concentration in English. During the summer of 2002, Jason worked as a researcher and writing assistant to Arthur Fleischer, Jr. and Alexander Sussman, who were preparing the sixth edition of their legal treatise, Takeover Defense. He has also worked as an analyst at Chase Global Investment Bank and Tudor Investment Corporation.

Lisa Greenbaum (see 2002 listing).

2002

Jenny Cohen (NYU '03) served as a teaching assistant in NYU's Lawyering Program and worked for the Battered Women's Project. She received a B.A. with honors in international relations and Spanish from Claremont McKenna College. She has lived and worked in Colorado, Argentina, and New Mexico, where she interned with the Community and Indian Legal Services of Northern New Mexico.

Richard Soto (Harvard '03) was a Presidential Scholar as an undergraduate at NYU, where he graduated magna cum laude in 1995 with majors in both economics and politics. From 1995 to 1997, he worked in the administrative and emerging markets departments at Republic National Bank. From 1997 through 2000, he was in government service where he performed economic analyses with respect to Latin America.

Lisa Greenbaum (Michigan '04) graduated from Tulane in 1999 with a B.A. in economics and Spanish, and was admitted to Phi Beta Kappa. She has considerable financial services experience, having worked in 1998 as a summer analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and as an analyst from 1999 through 2001 at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.

2001

John Freeland (Columbia '02) graduated from Brown in 1998 with a B.A. in modern culture and media. He transferred to Columbia Law School in September 2000 after one year at Florida State University School of Law, where he achieved an A average and was elected associate editor of the Law Review.

Jeffrey Metzler (Yale '02) graduated magna cum laude from Brown University in 1995 with a B.A. in public policy. He received a master's degree in public administration in 1999 from Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs.

Leigh Eisenman (Virginia '03) graduated magna cum laude from Dartmouth in 1999 with highest honors in her English major. Between college and law school, she worked for a year as a litigation paralegal at Dewey Ballantine. She previously worked at Penguin Putnam Inc., edited and contributed to The Stonefence Review at Dartmouth, and maintains an interest in fiction writing.

Andrea Martin (NYU '03) graduated cum laude from Duke in 2000, where she majored in public policy and had minors in economics and African-American studies. She worked as an intern for Rep. Chaka Fattah (2d Dist. Pa.) during the summer of 1998, and worked at Cravath, Swaine & Moore during the summer of 2000 as a Sponsors for Educational Opportunity Legal Intern. She was a Dean's Scholar at NYU.

2000

Heather Windt (NYU '00) graduated in 1997 from the University of Michigan, where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. Heather spent the summer of 1999 at Cravath, Swaine & Moore.

Karin McEwen (NYU '01) graduated from Grinnell College in 1989 and received an M.A. in Russian history from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1998. Karin studied in 1989 at the National Theater Institute/Leningrad State Institute of Music, Theater and Cinematography, and taught English in St. Petersburg Classical High School in 1993-94.

Jon Hlafter (Georgetown '02) graduated from Princeton University in 1997 with an A.B. in history, and sang for the Princeton Tigertones and the Princeton University Glee Club. He worked for two years before law school as a corporate paralegal at LeBoeuf Lamb.

Sunny Park (Columbia '02) graduated from Columbia University in 1998 with a B.A. in art history, making the Dean's List seven out of eight semesters. She worked for a year as a legal assistant at Skadden Arps between college and law school.

Jose Talavera (Harvard '02) graduated from Cornell University in 1999, magna cum laude, with majors in English and French. He spent the summer of 1999 as a legal intern at Winthrop Stimson. Jose is fluent in French and Spanish.