guest speaker series
Lunch with Lawyers
What is Lunch with Lawyers?
Lunch with Lawyers is a Socratic seminar series led on-site by a different visiting legal professional each time. Small groups of students, selected by their teachers on the basis of academic excellence, improvement, class participation, and school citizenship, enjoy a bag lunch and participate in a roundtable discussion on a current legal issue. The guest, an expert in the field, moderates the discussion and asks questions that encourage students to further develop their points of view.
Guests have included lawyers in the corporate, non-profit, and governmental sectors, as well as judges, politicians, activists, community organizers, and law enforcement officers. It therefore offers students exposure to a variety of careers in the legal profession.
When is Lunch with Lawyers?
Lunch with Lawyers takes place every other week during students’ regularly scheduled lunch period.
Past Lunch with Lawyers guests include:
- Mr. Jeffrey Smith
Managing Partner, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP - The Honorable Robert Levy
Magistrate Judge, US District Court for the Eastern District of New York - Professor Aliza Kaplan
Instructor of Law, Brooklyn Law School - Mr. Henry Scheinkopf
Political, Public Affairs, & Governmental Relations Consultant, Sheinkopf LTD - Mr. Edgar Davila
Legal Aid Attorney, Red Hook Community Justice Center - Detective Evel Morales
Special Investigator, 84th Precinct Detective Squad
...and many more
Interested in being a Lunch with Lawyers guest?
To inquire, email Joe Pinto, Director of Programs, at jpinto@sljhs.org.
The commitment is ninety minutes, not including transportation.
SLJ deeply thanks Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP for its generous provision of lunch for this series.
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