Recent Iowa Law graduate Jake Bergman (22JD) shares his experience managing law school during a global pandemic and his gratitude for the professor and mentors who helped him along the way. Jake is currently in Minneapolis working as a SALT Consultant at Wipfli and earning an Executive LLM in Taxation at New York University.

TLDR: Thank you for making my legal education at Iowa Law such a fantastic chapter of my life.

Recently, my time as a student at Iowa Law has concluded. It was a strange three years. I learned a lot about myself and, of course, a little about the law.

I came to Iowa Law without many expectations of becoming a lawyer but with high expectations of myself. In some areas, I fell short. In others, I massively exceeded my expectations. I had a lot of help along the way.

It all started with Iowa Law's week-long orientation, Introduction to Law and Legal Reasoning. Over the course of the week, I was reassured that I had picked the right school. Life is a fickle thing, and ultimately it is about people, the relationships you build with them, and how you treat individuals. For me, it was the people at Iowa. All of the bright-eyed, thoughtful students I began forming relationships with this first week and the glimpse at the caringness of the staff and faculty at this prestigious university.

I was also lucky enough to be in Dean Washburn's section for the orientation course. The totality of the orientation was fun, enjoyable, and a deep, yet shallow, dive into...

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