Summer 2015

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  Philadelphia's New Movers and Shakers

  With its first six graduating classes, the Kline School of Law unleashed more than 800 attorneys into the world, who have gone on to practice in states from California to Maine and in countries from Japan to Gabon.

  But the biggest cohort, by far, have become Philadelphia lawyers, bestowing their skills, savvy and stubborn determination on a city that needs it, a city where most took their first steps into a courtroom or shook their first client’s hand.

  Alumni with a Kline School of Law pedigree have made inroads in all areas of practice in the City of Brotherly Love, from big firms to government agencies to boutique firms that cater to startups, public interest efforts, general counsel offices of hospitals and corporations and the criminal courts.

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  Expanding Philly’s Public Interest Footprint

  Teeming with immigrants and plagued by struggling schools, lackluster job growth and one of the highest big-city poverty rates in the U.S., Philadelphia possesses a mountain of unmet legal needs.

  With skill and resolve, the Kline School of Law and its alumni are chipping away at that peak.

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  Denizens of the CJC

  Philadelphia has its share of criminals, aggressive police, unfit parents and truant teens who create a measure of mayhem in pockets of the city.

  Increasingly, the professionals who must pass a legal comb through that chaos earned their JDs at Drexel University and got their first taste of legal practice through the law school’s co-op and clinic programs.

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  Finding Her Footing on the Fast Track

  As a rising 3L, Earthen Johnson couldn’t possibly have known that her summer associateship at Drinker, Biddle & Reath would turn out to be one of those “right place, right time” moments.  

  And yet, providentially, there she was.  

  Johnson, ’11, spent part of the summer 2010 in Drinker’s Investment Management Practice, just weeks before President Obama signed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act into law. 

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  Enablers

  As Philadelphia’s startup community grows, the law school and its alumni are playing a key role in stoking the city’s ambitions to become a major player in the tech world.

  A growing corps of alumni work for boutique firms that cater to entrepreneurs, hang out their own shingles to serve startups and aid investors who prime the innovation pump in Philadelphia and the region.

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  At the Heart of Innovation

  About the time that Microsoft reached its 10^th anniversary in the mid-1990s, the entire tech world came to the starting realization that it faced a growing array of legal problems.

  And there was Amy Landers, who had cut her teeth professionally with Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, mastering civil litigation in many forms. 

  Having spent a year and a half in the firm’s San Francisco headquarters, Landers moved to its Silicon Valley office as soon as it opened.

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  Class Notes Summer 2015

  Find out what your classmates are up to.

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