cover image   #77 - Fall 2007

Formats:    PDF pages 1-40 + In Memoriam (3.06 MB)
PDF Classmates + In Memoriam (2.1 MB)
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Highlights:
  • From the Dean.
  • The Changing Business of Law. A look at the business of law and how issues such as billable hours, cost-saving pressures, technology, and work/life balance are affecting everyone from new associates to senior managers of large firms to general counsels.
  • Making Time for Government Service. Mike Kahn '73 (MA '73), senior partner at Folger Levin & Kahn in San Francisco, talks about balancing life with public service and other pursuits—such as his passion for collecting political cartoons.
  • Clerking at the Supreme Court. Stanford Law School alumni shed light on the mysteries of applying for and taking on a clerkship at the nation's highest court.
  • That Stanford Thing. Ross Chanin '09 talks about balancing his legal studies with co-founding ReputationDefender, a company that was "created to defend you and your family's good name on the Internet."
  • Joint Venture. Joseph A. Grundfest's '78 Venture Capital class brings some of the biggest names in the Valley to Stanford Law School.
  • Legal Matters. Former U.S. Attorney Carol Lam '85 speaks with Professor George Fisher about the DOJ, the 2006 mass firing of U.S. attorneys, and her new position at QUALCOMM.
  • Point of View. Professor Paul Goldstein muses on intellectual property and business.
  • A Cross-Country Journey to Law School. Four graduates from the Class of 2000 remember how, as strangers, a road trip to their first year of law school brought them together.
  • Law and Oil in Venezuela. David Hults '08 on oil and the rule of law.
  • In Brief. Alumni and School News
  • Clinic News. Highlights from the Mills Legal Clinic of Stanford Law School.
  • Faculty News. Stanford Law School faculty news
  • New Faculty. An introduction to new faculty and visiting faculty
  • In Memoriam
  • Classmates