Fifth Annual Legal Career Options Day

One of the great ideas our Assistant Dean for Career Services, Anthony Bastone, brought with him from the University of Colorado School of Law is “Legal Career Options Day,” (LCOD) a chance for students to meet (I hate the word “network”) with a broad array of lawyers in a single, comfortable setting.  Tony always recruits an eclectic array of lawyers who demonstrate, as he says, “the versatility of the J.D. degree.”

The fifth edition of LCOD was a big hit as students got a chance to speak with judges, legal aid lawyers, a federal prosecutor, a state public defender, military lawyers, in-house counsel, private practitioners from many practice settings, the state Child Advocate, an author, and many more. 

One of the traditions at LCOD is the presentation of the “Distinguished Service Award” to a lawyer or judge who goes above and beyond for RWU Law students.  This year the award went to the Honorable Daniel Procaccini, Associate Justice of the RI Superior Court, who provides our students unique inside looks at the workings of the judicial system.

Here are some photos from that terrific event.

Kimberly Jones, Special Counsel with Foley Hoag, LLP, Boston;
Anthony Bastone, Assistant Dean for Career Services

(L-R) Megan Jackson (1L); William Trezvant, RI Department of the
Attorney General; Dean David Logan; Richard Rose, Assistant U.S. Attorney

The Honorable Daniel A. Procaccini, RI Superior Court

(L-R) Kevin Rolando, Esq., Judicial Clerk for the Honorable Chief
Justice Frank Williams; Kenneth Rampino, Esq.,
Judicial Clerk RI Superior Court

(L-R) Marcus J. Jones, Esq., Assistant District Attorney, Bristol County
District Attorney’s Office, MA; Lauren Engel (3L)

Jametta Alston, Esq.,Child Advocate, RI Office of the Child Advocate

(L-R) Louise E. Rothery, Executive Director, Association of
Corporate Counsel Northeast Chapter; Christine Nickerson, Esq.,
Senior Legal Counsel, CVS Caremark

(L-R) Dana Shechtman, Esq., Proprietor, Barrington Books;
Nancy Geary, Esq., Author/Attorney/Adjunct Faculty RWU Law

Jason Van Volkenburgh, Esq., Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP

William Trezvant, Esq. Special Assistant Attorney General,
RI Department of the Attorney General with RWU Law students

LCDR Cassie Kitchen, Esq., J.A.G. Corps, U.S. Coast Guard
Capt. Brian Fischenich, Esq., Legal Office, J.A.G. Corps, U.S. Air Force

Veronica Paricio, Director, Career Services with Thomas J. Mello, Esq.,
Public Defender, Committee for Public Counsel Services, Mass.

Michael W. Field, Esq., Special Assistant Attorney General
& Member of the RWU Law Board of Directors

Veronica Paricio, Anthony Bastone, Justice Daniel A. Procaccini, David Logan

Justice Daniel Procaccini with Judicial Interns Kristen Hermiz,
Natasha Rabinovich, and Arthur DeFelice

(L-R) Nancy Striuli, Executive Director, RI Association for Justice;
Michael R. Bottaro, Esq., Wistow and Barylick, Inc.;
Patrick Barry, President Elect, RI Association for Justice;
Anthony Leone, Leone Law LLC

Frederick Massie, Director of Communications, RI Bar Association

John Dorsey (2L), Ashley Ruhe (2L)