This year, 123 students in the Class of 2017 will graduate with some level of Pro Bono Distinction, the highest number of students to graduate with this distinction in the law school’s history. During the year, students coordinated and staffed 15 Pro Bono Projects and five Alternative Spring Break opportunities. They also volunteered on four Justice Bus trips, bringing legal services to rural and isolated low-income communities. Over the course of their time at Stanford Law School, the class logged some 17,265 hours of pro bono work.
Faaris (Fares) Akremi (back right) is a second-year student at Stanford Law School from Jamestown, Missouri who volunteered at ArchCity Defenders in St. Louis, Missouri as part of a Spring 2017 Alternative Spring Break trip. The other students on the trip were Amari Hammonds (JD ’17) (front right), Amy Tannenbaum (JD ’17) (front center), Michelle Wu (JD ’17) (front center left), Wenjie Ou (LLM ’17) (back left), Kevin Soter (JD ’18) (back center), Caroline Cohn (JD ’19) (front center right), and Ethan Herenstein (JD ’19) (front left). Picture courtesy of Zach (JD ’02) and Amy (BA ’99) Hammerman, who kindly hosted the group for dinner. Thanks also to Prof. John Drobak (JD ’73) for hosting the group. For more information about Stanford Law’s Alternative Spring Breaks program, visit the Pro Bono Program’s website.
