Today was commencement at my old law school. It makes my old bones ache just to think of it: it's been twenty years since I was in that same gown with those same purple stripes. I don't remember much about that swirl of a day, which includes not remembering meeting my wife for the first time, there as the little sister of one of my graduating classmates. However, I do remember the name of our graduation speaker, for whom my class fought with Bad - News - Bears - like tenacity: Judge Wapner. That was the year that U of I had two commencement addresses: one added-on for the status-anxious school administrators and the Boise BigLaw suits, and one for the rest of us of "The People's Court." Congratulations, Idaho law grads.
That's awesome. We had Erin Brockovich, for which I'm probably always going to be grateful. How often does someone mention their cup size (repeatedly) in a commencement address? See...? Completely memorable, and all at dinky Lewis & Clark.
ReplyDeleteI recently attended a law review event where the keynote speaker was Judge Joe Brown. I was a little bitter at first, particularly because the previous year's speaker was Judge Richard Posner. However, I eventually grew to embrace the event with full-blown irony.
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