Vladeck: Economic Crisis Should Be Seen as Opportunity for Law Graduates
Posted by Nia Hightower
Though graduates may be entering an economy in crisis — nationally and internationally, Georgetown law professor David Vladeck on May 17 told this year’s group of Law Center graduates that lawyers are needed now more than ever.
“You are joining the profession at exactly the right moment,” Vladeck said during Law Center’s afternoon commencement on Healy Lawn. “There is much work to be done. There are millions and millions of Americans who urgently need your help.”
Vladeck, who is also the newly appointed consumer protection director for the Federal Trade Commission, told the audience that with crisis comes opportunity.
“Our nation’s financial crisis may be the greatest challenge our graduates ever face,” he said, “… (but) the poor, the unemployed and the dispossessed need the help of lawyers to reclaim their lives, and they need help now.”
