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Alexander Grass

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Young Voices

Alexander Grass worked in entertainment for a shade under 10 years, working in television, as a writer, and performing on stage. Now he is in law school, where he focuses mostly on public law and criminal law. He is married with two children and lives in Brooklyn.

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“Social justice lawyers” won’t save law school

March 4, 2017
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Education

The following is a guest post by Young Voices Advocate Alex Grass. Last Friday, the Dean of Brooklyn Law School, Nicholas Allard, published an op-ed in The Hill that theorized a recent minor uptick in the number of law school applications was due to “the intense interest among many Millennials in issues of social justice and the urge to make a positive difference.” More specifically, Dean Allard pointed to the hordes of attorneys and law students that packed airport terminals in January to provide counsel to visitors caught up in President Trump’s poorly conceived immigration ban. In the