UofL LAW - THE CARDINAL LAWYER

The path from graduation through bar review leads inexorably to that exquisite moment, after decades of work and sacrifice, when a newly minted lawyer takes her or his solemn oath as a member of the bar. At today's ceremony before the Supreme Court of Kentucky in Frankfort, Justice Lisabeth Hughes Abramson (a 1980 graduate of the University of Louisville School of Law) administered the oath to dozens of recent Louisville graduates and other new lawyers from Kentucky's Fourth Supreme Court District.

Suffice it to say that this was a moment of great pride, for the new lawyers, for their families, for Justice Abramson, and for me. I hope that the whole Law School community joins me in celebrating these graduates' success.

I hope to see you all at this evening's Law Alumni Awards Banquet . . . .

One of the first things I requested upon my arrival at the University of Louisville was a faculty workshop series. I am proud to report that the Law School's faculty excellence committee, under the leadership of Professor Tony Arnold, has assembled a splendid workshop series for the 2007-08 academic year.

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The Kentucky Office of Bar Admissions has announced the results of the July 2007 bar examination. Among the 84 University of Louisville law graduates who were first-time takers of the Kentucky bar exam, 77 passed. That translates to a passage rate of 92 percent.

The Law School congratulates the newly minted lawyers among its graduates.

Editor's note: This post is the first of several that reprint material I have published in other forums, such as the Louisville Bar Association's Bar Briefs, the Kentucky Bar Association's Bench and Bar, and MoneyLaw.

I've known rivers.
I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers"