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La Verne Law Students Take Next Step
About 80 students received their Juris Doctor degrees during commencement exercises Saturday.
University of La Verne law school students were reminded to mind their ethics Saturday during their commencement address Saturday.
That and be prepared for a liteny of lawyer jokes.
The jibe from commencement speaker Michael J. Bidert, Esq., was met with laughter from the more than 80 graduates, friends and family at the event inside the Supertents.
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Class speaker David B. Malleis spoke of the long days and nights put in by the students, and the support from family members. He used his own life as an example, having to read legal briefs while on a family trip to Disneyland.
While the graduates celebrated Saturday, they were not out of the woods yet. They still had studying to do: for the bar exam this summer.
