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Monday Morning Message 3.12.2018: "Some Call Them Crusaders. We Call them Graduates"
“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” – Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird.
“We are not just attorneys, but defenders of justice….To merely label us ‘attorneys’ would do a disservice to this great profession…” – Brittany Lowe ’17, Jones Day
“I love Cleveland-Marshall, and I love the opportunity it provides for its students to take the law and apply it toward a life of justice.” – Alana Jochum ’10, Executive Director, Equality Ohio
Monday Morning Message 3.5.2018: "The Future Started Yesterday."
“The future started yesterday and we’re already late.” -John Legend
“Once a new technology rolls over you, if you’re not part of the steamroller, you’re part of the road.” – Stewart Bran
We are an iconic law school but we do not rest on our 121 years of laurels. We constantly plan for our future. We look around corners. We anticipate where the world is going and do our best to get there early.
Emerging and fast-evolving technologies, such as blockchain, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, have companies and law firms scrambling for legal talent that understands technology. We are educating that talent.
Monday Morning Message 2.26.2018: "Is this Hello or Goodbye?"
“If you hire people just because they can do a job, they’ll work for your money. But if you hire people who believe what you believe, they’ll work for you with blood and sweat and tears.” - Simon Sinek
When I served in public office, a necessary part of each election campaign was raising funds. I’ll never forget what one donor said to me as he handed me his financial contribution. He said, “is this ‘hello’, or is this ‘goodbye’?” He observed that most candidates courted him until he made his financial contribution; but after that, he didn’t hear from the candidate again.
Monday Morning Message 2.19.2018: "There's Something Happening Here"
“There's something happening here; What it is ain't exactly clear. There's a man with a gun over there; Telling me I got to beware….
I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound; Everybody look what's going down. There's battle lines being drawn ; Nobody's right if everybody's wrong. Young people speaking their minds ; Getting so much resistance from behind.” - Buffalo Springfield, For What It Is Worth
No matter your views on guns, our hearts break for the children and families of Parkland, Florida.
Monday Morning Message 2.12.2018: "Connect With Your Lion Power"
I am building a fire, and every day I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.” —Mia Hamm, gold-medal soccer player
Red Gerard was sitting dead last in the men's slopestyle snowboarding final early yesterday in South Korea after his first two runs down the course. He botched his first run, finishing with a score of 43.33. His second run wasn't much better as he wiped out and received a score of 46.60. But he crushed his final run to put up a score of 87.16, essentially doubling his score.
The 17-year-old former Clevelander won the Olympic gold medal, America's first gold medal of the Pyeongchang Olympic Games.
Monday Morning Message 2.5.2018: "A Moment of Opportunity"
“The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own times. The generations that wrote and ratified the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment did not presume to know the extent of freedom in all of its dimensions, and so they entrusted to future generations a charter protecting the right of all persons to enjoy liberty as we learn its meaning.” -U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, Obergefell v. Hodges
Monday Morning Message 1.29.2018: "Hire Grit"
“The soft skills are the hard skills.” -Professor Amy Edmondson, Harvard Business School
“21st century education revolves around the “4Cs” (critical thinking, communication, collaboration and creativity).” -Ken Kay, CEO,EdLeader21
“Talent alone gets you nowhere. You really have to have the grit, and you gotta have a love for people.” - Zac Brown
As 2018 begins, a number of our Class of 2017 graduates continue to seek full-time post-graduate employment. Why should you hire our graduates? Here’s why.
Monday Morning Message 1.22.2018: "The Lighting of a Fire"
“Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats
“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.” – Robert Frost
Not a week goes by without my receiving positive emails and notes from students, alumni, and community leaders about our outstanding Cleveland-Marshall faculty and staff. I enjoy sharing some of them from time to time.
From Our Current Students
Monday Morning Message 1.16.2018
“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.”– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
“The bosom of America is open to receive not only the opulent and respected stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all nations and religions, whom we shall welcome to a participation of all our rights and privileges.” – President George Washington
Monday Morning Message 1.8.2018
Each January I choose 12 quotes, one for each month of the year, to serve as my guideposts for the coming year. Last year’s quotes can be found here: January 9, 2017 MMM
So here’s some wisdom to live by in 2018.