Hearsay

• Pages: 15-15

Club O

Anthony Ray H inton’s story of h is exoneration after

three decades on death r ow has received a rare honor:

a coveted spot as the late st Oprah’s Book Club pick.

Hinton’s tragic yet triumphant memoir, The Sun Does

Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Dea th Row,

now has an internationa l platform to shed light on the

need for criminal jus tice reform. The Sun Does Shine

is the second book club pick in a row to tell the stor y

of a man convicted of a cr ime he didn’t commit.

Source: oxygen.com .

In the wake of the Me Too movement, big fi rms

such as Orrick, Her rington & Sutcli e and Go odwin

Procter are modifyi ng their summer associa te pro-

grams, reducing the amount of drinking built into social

events and adding events foc used on the wellness and well -

being of their summe r associates. Goodw in has added

cooking classes, spinning sessions and cultural

events, including museum tours and theater out-

ings. The fi rm says there i s a correlation between

alcohol and bad be havior, and it wants to move away

from that summer them e. Goodwin also require s all

employees to take anti-harassment training.

Source: theamericanlawyer.com.

Opening Statements

AUGUST 2018 ABA JOURNAL || 15

... is the amount of revenue

from the new documentar y about

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader

Ginsburg, during the fi rst month

of release. The 85-year-old just ice

is a hit on the silver screen, with

RBG, the 29th-highest gr ossing

documentary of al l time. The fi lm

premiered at the Sundance Film

Festival in January. Co-produced

by Betsy West and Julie Cohen with

CNN Films , RBG traces the life and

career of the trai lblazing justice.

Source: wallstreetjournal .com.

Did You Know?

Under a new pilot progra m, the University of Penns ylvania

Law School has bec ome the fi rst U.S. law s chool to accept the

GMAT in place of the LSAT for admissions , along with the

GRE. The move is par t of a trend at law schools across

the country to give app licants additiona l options

beyond the LSAT. The ABA is scheduled to

vote this month on whether to tos s the

accreditation sta ndard that calls for a

“valid and reliable a dmission test.”

Source: law.co m.

Hearsay

$7.9

million

PHOTOS BY ROB CRANDALL/F11PHOTO/LUCKY BUSINESS/SHUTTERSTOCK.COM; COURTESY OF UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA LAW SCHOOL/FOTOBUDDY

Me Too Modifi cations

Penn Law’s Golkin Hall o cially opened in

April 2012 with a dedication convocation

featuring Justice Sonia Sotomayor.