Friedman Kaplan welcomed the following law students to its 2006 summer associate program:

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.