GW Law Speaker: Embrace the Struggle, Law Grads

Editor’s Note: In the coming weeks, speakers around the country will dispense advice to graduating law school students at their commencement ceremonies. Big Law Business is publishing relevant excerpts and condensed speeches.

On May 18, Bobby Burchfield, of King & Spaulding , delivered George Washington Law School’s Commencement Address, entitled “A Thirty-Six Year Head Start.” Burchfield has been lead counsel in a number of antitrust cases, and also represented the Republican National Committee and other political parties in a First Amendment challenge to the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, which he argued before the U.S. Supreme Court in McConnell v. Federal Election Commission.

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