Join Dr. Kenneth Marcus for a discussion about the varying issues that arise for law students and lawyers as they struggle to choose between making money or making a change.  In the aptly named program, “Making Dollars or Making Change: Biglaw, Human Rights, and the Purposeful Lawyer,” Dr. Marcus will discuss the competing values that often come to clash as well as his own transition into public interest work. 

Dr. Kenneth Marcus is the Founder and President of the Louis D. Brandeis Center, Inc. (LDB), an independent, non-partisan institution for public interest advocacy, research, and education. The Center's mission is to advance the civil and human rights of the Jewish people and to promote justice for all.  He is also author of the award-winning Jewish Identity and Civil Rights in America (New York: Cambridge University Press: 2010) and The Definition of Anti-Semitism (New York: Oxford University Press: 2015).  Before starting the Brandeis Center, Dr.  Marcus served as a partner in several Biglaw firms. He then worked in public service, serving as Staff Director at the United States Commission on Civil Rights and was delegated the authority of Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights and Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity governance. 

Sponsored by LDB.