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Back in law school, it was a running “what if” among a group of public interest-minded friends: wouldn’t it be great if they could all practice together someday?
Just a few years later, that’s exactly what happened. Omar Qureshi, Will Horowitz, and Max Schoening (all JD ’18) ...reunited at Qureshi Law, where they focus on civil-rights and police-misconduct cases, jail and prison abuses, child-abuse matters, and wrongful-death litigation.
This fall, the three-lawyer firm won a $42.75M civil rights verdict—the largest of its kind in Louisiana history.
“Sometimes I still think, how is this our job?” Qureshi says. “We get to do work we care about, with people we trust, and take on cases that can make a real difference. It doesn’t get better than that.”
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Earlier this month, the annual swearing-in ceremony was held celebrating our recent graduates being admitted to the California State Bar as they take the state oath along with a ceremonial federal oath for the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. 🎉
...George Triantis, JSD ’89, Richard E. Lang Professor of Law and Dean of Stanford Law School and Robert Weisberg, JD ’79, Edwin E. Huddleson, Jr. Professor of Law were in attendance along with alumni judges The Honorable Thomas E. Kuhnle, ’87, MA ’88, JD ’95, of the Santa Clara County Superior Court and The Honorable Susan Illston, JD ’73, of the United States District Court for the Northern District of California offered personal reflections.
“My life has been filled with luck,” Professor William B. Gould IV said at his December appearance at the Stanford Bookstore, where he was joined by close friend Dusty Baker, former MLB player and San Francisco Giants manager.
Gould spoke about his new memoir, Those Who Travail and Are... Heavy Laden, tracing his path from a childhood in Massachusetts to landmark civil-rights moments, major employment discrimination cases, work in apartheid-era South Africa, and his role in resolving the 1994–95 Major League Baseball strike.
A pioneering voice in labor law and Stanford Law’s first Black faculty member, “Dr. Bill” also reflected on 53 years of teaching, mentoring, and writing at SLS: “I’ve been lucky to spend my life thinking about things that matter. Stanford gave me the room to do that.” Read more in Stanford Lawyer magazine: https://brnw.ch/21wYrjl
Stanford Law School “Short Courses” are intensive one- or two-unit offerings that run just a few weeks and bring distinguished judges, practitioners, and policymakers into the classroom.
For the Winter Short Course highlight we talk with Jessica Rosenworcel who is the Executive ...Director of the MIT Media Lab. From 2021 to 2025, she served as the Chairwoman of the United States Federal Communications Commission.
The course, The Future of Wired, Wireless, and Space Communications Law and Policy (4063), looks at how communications technologies affect every aspect of civic and commercial life. In the digital age, they are also changing at a blistering pace. How does law and policy keep up? The course will explore the frameworks governing wired, wireless, and space communications. Subjects considered will include universal service obligations, network nondiscrimination, spectrum licensing, broadcast media, and satellite services as well as the role of administrative decision-making in developing the future of policies governing these technologies.
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