{"id":39,"date":"2017-05-01T11:16:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T15:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/?p=39"},"modified":"2017-05-01T11:16:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T15:16:33","slug":"celebrating-our-hero-lawyers-on-law-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/2017\/05\/01\/celebrating-our-hero-lawyers-on-law-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Our Hero-Lawyers on Law Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is one of those \u201cholidays\u201d that not many people know about, but that we take pretty seriously here at Richmond Law. It\u2019s Law Day, the day we celebrate the role of law in our society. And there\u2019s no better way to celebrate the role that Richmond Law lawyers play in society than by taking a look back at a few stand-out members of the Richmond Law community. These women and men have made significant contributions: to their communities, to the legal profession, and even to legal education. To us, these are just a few examples of what we like to call hero-lawyers \u2013 and they make us pretty proud to be Spiders!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/urscholarship\/docs\/fall99\/8\">Jacob Morewitz, L\u20191916<\/a>, filed an emergency motion on behalf of Jewish refugees on board the S.S. Quanza, preventing their return to Nazi-occupied Europe.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/urscholarship\/docs\/summer2013\/10\">Jane Brown Ranson, L\u201923<\/a>, was the first female to graduate from Richmond Law, forging new paths for women.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/urscholarship\/docs\/summer2005\/12\">Judge Robert R. Merhige, L\u201942<\/a>, became a federal judge who was known for\u00a0his desegregation rulings.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/urscholarship\/docs\/fall2001\/18\">Professor Bob Shepherd<\/a> helped shape the field of juvenile justice in Virginia and beyond.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/urscholarship\/docs\/spring2001\/12\"> Hyung Mo Lee, L\u201901<\/a>, was the oldest law student to graduate from Richmond, showing that there\u2019s no seniority when it comes to the pursuit of knowledge.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/urscholarship\/docs\/spring02\/16\"> Azizah al-Hibri<\/a> helped journalists understand Islam in the wake of September 11.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see, we have a lot to celebrate on Law Day \u2013 and this is just the tip of the iceberg! We\u2019re grateful for \u2013 and proud of \u2013 the members of our Richmond Law community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is one of those \u201cholidays\u201d that not many people know about, but that we take pretty seriously here at Richmond Law. It\u2019s Law Day, the day we celebrate the role of law in our society. And there\u2019s no better way to celebrate the role that Richmond Law lawyers play in society than by taking [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3329,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63325,1288,63313],"tags":[63326],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spiderlawpride","category-alumni","category-legal-education","tag-law-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3329"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/lawdean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}