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Three decades after graduating from ILR, Eric Wagner '92 found a unique way to thank his labor and employment law professor, Risa Lieberwitz, "and help her as she had helped me."
Soon after Lieberwitz was named academic director of the Worker Institute this past summer, Wagner learned that its Undergraduate Student Research Fellows Program needed researchers, but that students couldn't take the positions without being paid. So, he endowed a fund to support the program.
As a student in Lieberwitz's classes, Wagner, now a partner at Kleinberg Kaplan and chair of its Private Funds and Investment Management Practice Group, "sensed how important she considered teaching to be." The son of teachers, he credits Lieberwitz with "teaching people like me, who planned to go to law school, how to think about legal issues."
One of those classes was "Constitutional Aspects of Labor Law," which had 10-15 students. "We sat around a table and learned through discussion and analysis," he recalled. "It gave me a leg up for classes I would take in law school."
Although their politics differ, Wagner always felt heard in her classes. "You were encouraged to speak your opinions, even if she disagreed with them," he said. "And if she disagreed, she might say, 'Here's why. Have you thought about...
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