 If you have been vaccinated, which most of you have, then not outpouring sets of larger events. Those of you who are not in a case-by-case basis. But when you're inside, in class, or in some of the places, or mathematically in a race situation, please do wear this. So thank you very much. We appreciate that. And this is, again, something that we're doing to start this semester. And in this semester, we're going to reassess the continued need for more masking and deciding that final product. So this is a starting to make sure we stay safe and then reassess on some of that related to policy. Okay, thank you very much. I'm going to turn the point now over to my colleague, Matt Dunlop-Witch, to say a few things. My name is Michael Rodney-Boyle. As the dean said, I pronounce R.E.K.M. and I.I.S. And the assistant dean of admissions has been emailing you relentlessly over the last year. I want to welcome all of you to orientation 22. Tonight I want you all to learn a little bit about the class that you've joined, the class of 2024. And some of the interesting things your classmates have done. But I'm going to be here all day and I know some of you are probably starting to doubt yourselves. I want you all to know that we admitted every single one of you for a reason. You didn't make a mistake, I promise you. You can and you will do this. I mean that. Your classmates come from all over the country. The top theater states in your class will not surprise you. It's rival. With 33% of your classmates. Massachusetts takes up 14% of your class. And New York 12%. 7% are from Connecticut. Surprisingly, California and New Jersey are tied this year for the fifth slot. Both the garden state and the golden state have 4% of your class. There are six Floridians here and Michigan sent us four students. Overall there are 31 U.S. states and territories in your class. All the rest of the states I did not mention sent us three or less students. I did not mention that three of your classmates come from Canada. There is a wide range of undergraduate colleges and universities in your class. Just to give you a sample of some of the schools that sent us two or more students. Those include Colby College, Penn State University Park, University of Colorado Boulder, as well as Colorado Springs. GW, Michigan State, Connecticut College, Syracuse. There are and University of Toronto. There are nine schools in the top eight feeder schools to your class. There are two-way ties from the seventh spot on the University of South Carolina and the University at Albany. Each is four. In the fifth spot there is a three-way tie between Ryland College and the University of Connecticut at Stores and the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, each with five students. Johnson-Wales University is in fourth place with six students. Providence College in third with seven students. And the University of Ryland is in second place with ten students. For the first time in a number of years, our own Ratchfield University has no students in the class with eleven students entering GO Hawks. Your class has done many amazing things. But some of the most unique things you have done, you have done can be a bully. All of you are surviving and thriving in the midst of a global pandemic and have now to embark on your law school career. You were the first class of students ever primarily to be outside in the comfort of your own home while someone watched them from afar. You were also the first class that was recruited remotely in virtual law school forums and college centers. It's been quite the journey and I am thrilled to see all of you in person and not on Zoom. You should know you have some amazing classmates. They have been teachers, paralegals, reporters, and serve in the military. You even have the sneaker reseller. You have a classmate that founded an art gallery, another who created a web-based health platform. In a classmate, you can create a company that recreates exotic tap water from around the globe for high-end restaurants. A number of you have been involved in the cannabis industry. We have somebody who is a cannabis investigator navigating that regulatory world, someone else who lobbied for the national organization for the reform of marijuana laws, and another classmate has run a medical marijuana company. You have been active on your campuses. We have a couple presidents of hot hall councils, some of them in ROTC, and someone else who works at their campus radio station. A number of you have worked on diversity, equity, and inclusion issues on your campuses, including the president of students organized for Black and Hispanic unity, and the founder of a multicultural student union. Many of you have been involved in college athletics, including division of swimming, soccer, and travel. I would also note that we have a number of rugby players in the class, mostly women. Going through your class personal statements and resumes, we notice an unusual number of students that have been involved with animals. We have competitive equestrians. We have a dog motion from Alaska, and somebody helped with swine research in Michigan. That's just a small sample. One of your classmates even has a pot belly pig named for detective militia vests from Lawnmere SPU. Speaking of SPU, someone else in your class did production work on Lawnmere SPU. Actually, a number of your classmates were involved in the arts entertainment. A classmate has done video editing of documentaries about the women's march and about lawyers behaving badly. Another classmate has done tech work for Improv Boston and someone else has written commercial jingles. We also have members of Ukraine, Indian, and Afro-Caribbean dance groups. Your class has a member of Puerto Rico's synchronized swimming team and a silver medal winner from the Pan-American Games in Venezuela for the deaf women's basketball team. The class of 2024 has been unusually politically involved, including the president of a college Republican chapter in a camp or circle around a Democratic Party. Your classmates have attended some of the country's biggest political events, including the State of the Union address and a CPAP convention. One member of your class played one of the Super Bowls of American politics, the McIntyre Schoenberg in New Hampshire. And I can tell you they honestly did a massive job because my husband and I were at the audience. You have classmates who volunteered on both the Bernie Sanders and the Pete Buttigieg campaigns, and one of your classmates was an intern on Lindsey Graham's Senate re-election campaign. You have interned for a wide range of politicians from Rhode Island's Congressman David Cicely to South Carolina Senator Tim Scott. A number of you are active politically here in Rhode Island, including the Rhode Island president of the National Organization of Women, a legislative aide for the Rhode Island Senate president, a policy analyst for the Rhode Island House of Representatives, and even we even have the Rhode Island House of Representatives in majority women class. At a school that celebrates its social justice mission, we are excited to welcome those of you who have been on the front lines of better society. Your classmates have taught me your rights classes in the Bronx, worked at Legal Aid in the San Diego, marched against the murder of women in Mexico, served with senior year at Boston, and have been arrested protesting at Rhode Island's immigrant detentions. Our nationally known Marina Faire's Institute always attracts folks who are interested in coastal backgrounds, and this year is no different. This year's class includes someone who served in the East Corp, creating coastal management plans in the Philippines, someone who developed a podcast of Water Harbor State, and someone who worked as a marine planner assisting an offshore agreement. Your class also has someone who is a diet instructor in Hawaii, a deckhand on a 72 foot racing sailboat on a new board, and a marine bamboo anchor at the Texas State Aquarium. A number of you took less traditional tasks to get here. Some started their education in community colleges. More than one of you were not admitted the first time you applied here, but came back at the process and gated missions this year, and we are so proud to have you in this room. We know what it's like to be unstable in the house, to have parents in court, or to have family involved in criminal justice system. You put your education on hold to have children. The average age of your class is 26, higher than our normal, and 15% of your class is 30 years of age or older. Your class speaks at least 16 languages, including American Sign Language, Armenian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Italian, Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, Pushtu, Telugu, Greek, German, Korean, and Russian. Some of the most impressive people in your class did not found companies, did not publish research, did not have internships in various organizations. Some of the most impressive people in your class were working around college, driving computers, waiting tables, working at supermarkets and as baristas at Starbucks, whatever they needed to do to pay the bills to get their education. We truly honor that journey as well. Like 27% of your class, I was a first-generation college student. I had no fancy internships, and worked in a food court in my free time and made for my education. I've read your files. I know I'm not the only one with that set of experiences. I want all of you to know that you belong here. We admit you intentionally from the tenacity you will bring, your legal career began today and you are ready to be leaders. Your class is overwhelmingly female. 58% of your class identifies as female, 99% as male, and 2% as gender non-binary or gender non-female. 11% of your class identifies as a member of the LGBTQ plus community. 2% of your class served in the military, representing all four races. In this moment of rhetoric in our country's history, where we continue to affirm that black lives matter, we are pleased to report that 10% of your class identifies as black as all or more of their heritage. Overall, 26% of your class identifies as black. I am also very pleased to welcome our Masters of Studies of Law students to our community. These students mainly working professionals will be taking classes alongside our JD students while they are in their MSL degree. I think you will value the respect that these students will add to your experience. Thanks to COVID, I have come to realize that the law school you were joining is far more than our facility. It's our community. This law school is a living, breathing place separate and apart from our community. It is a set of core values that truly make this law school special. Our commitment to our students, the deep experiential learning, the social justice, the diversity, equity, and so on. The team of admissions office, Tom, Kate, Wendy and I, we all want to say thank you for opening up and sharing your colorful stories with us with the privilege to get to know all of you. Please don't be strangers to the admissions office. We are excited to embark on this journey and see how each of you will change your world. So on behalf of all of us at Roger Blaine University, I'm just bringing economics from the University of Exeter in the UK and his JD from Northwestern. The spirit of my career remarks, Dean Bowman lived in Denmark, speaks Danish, and enjoys woodworking and building furniture when he actually has free time. Dean Bowman practiced international trade law in Washington DC and Chicago. His work involved trade sanctions in North Korea, espionage, money laundering, bribery, really, really boring stuff. He began his teaching career at Mississippi College of Law before joining the law faculty at West Virginia University. Dean of West Virginia in 2014. With that, I am so proud to hand the class of 2024 for the Dean of Crater Regional. So hello again. Again, in a part of the day, we've been over a year, we're excited to welcome you into the legal profession. Some speakers for you today. To talk with you, big inventions have your career in it. It's about being here at Roger Blaine University so Michael said a key point is your community. You're not the building. I'm going to introduce our line of speakers one by one. If you can give them your full attention, we have some wonderful folks for today. And we start with our very own chairperson. I'm proud to introduce to you President Dr. Janis Mialis to say a few words. Dr. Mialis is a leading innovator in higher education and he is a true friend of the law school. And I did join in 2019 at the University of Kansas. I did my on campus interview and you might say, wow, that is both brave and a shot of black judgment. But I joined because this is a university that has so much to say and so much more potential. The law school has a wonderful mission and I have the opportunity to work with Dr. Janis and he's a big review of why I came. President Mialis is a native of Greece. He received his bachelor's degree from Tuscany University. A master's degree of mechanical engineering from MIT. A master's in economics, TUS and his PhD from Tuscany and he served as the dean of the School of Engineering of Tuscany University from 1994 to 2002. And he served as the president and director of the Boston Science Museum from 2003 until joining the Broadway University as its president in 2008. He has a well-earned reputation for effective teaching and planning and innovative thinking. And I am really pleased to be here at Birmingham with him right away at the university and the school fall. So I can say a lot more about, to be honest, about his fund-raising skills and his awesome commitment about his dedication to making the university a better place and serving for an island the region during the nation by his focus on making the university an innovative place that trains future leaders and also and also and all that is true but I'll close my introduction by saying that our university that led by a person who understands that life is an adventure to be able to experience and to live to the fullest because we have a vision of a fantastic show. So free in front of this Dr. Piazzaura says you'd like to come over to my house to conduct your dinner yes thank you because so here's what made me a different world in helping people in making this university a better place to work to be honest we're glad you're here thank you so much please give a warm welcome to the start of your journey to becoming distinguished lawyers and jurors you're on to the Roger Williams family because you are close to students but also your one of my favorite moments as Roger Williams is before I even decided to come here for another day interview I had incognito lunches to meet the students in the dining hall I prepared them as a future student here I'm trying to see there are different spots actually I was having three lunches a day and in the first place I sat next to a young woman a young man a young woman's woman was a first year and a young man was a freshman and they had this wonderful conversation that went through politics and the lives of Roger Williams Bristol campus they were engaged and I do encourage you to blend with other students around campus and stick with your fellow law students because you can offer a lot especially to the younger students but also you can learn a lot by the rest of the community members here Roger Williams law office prevents opportunities inside and outside of a classroom Roger Williams is the best law school in Rotary and of course the oldest school in Rotary but the advantage of being only close to the Rotary you get a lot of attention a lot of important people that work in different law lawyers judges you get wonderful speakers here wonderful people that lecture mentors students also we are very fortunate to have a gorgeous campus here in Bristol and if you haven't explored Bristol it's a fantastic place to live great friendly people very nice restaurants a lot of cultural events and culture to take full advantage of it but also have a glorious campus so you can have both ways beautiful summer learning environment and a sitting environment to get involved with a lot of interstitial opportunities and cleanings that we offer over there as the moment said we are in the middle of a strategic process of doing the disciplinary programs that were very impressive now but it will be here for three years I'm sure many of you will take advantage of some of the disciplinary programs we built in law and marine and food economy areas the school is distinctive in public interest law but in affairs and on the other hand we have excellent marine biology and apaculture programs we have business school combination two programs that would be unique in the country and in the world and law students have been great pride this is my first law school orientation I have been here for two years but I started on August 19th and the orientation in 2019 was August 16th so I missed that one there was another trend here and then last year was COVID so there was no personal orientation this is my first law orientation and the best one so far it's about COVID it's unfortunate that the Delta variant even though we weren't counting on having classes we will be back on classes now but we want to be positive at least for the beginning of the semester and then monitor how things go we did better than most universities we did very very well last year we stayed over well under 1% with the DVD rate and this was because of this was because of great responsibility that everybody to students like the staff and we did very well and unfortunately we are going to do very well now we are about 95% less vaccinated so we have reached her immunity but again because of the Delta variant we have to be cautious so please follow the rules and get tested people should be required to make sure we are going to do well and get rid of the masks as soon as we can so I wish you all good luck you are at a great place you are at a place that faculty and staff care a lot about about your beautiful place and I am looking forward to seeing you around campus and really chatting with you thank you here is our next speaker Mark Morse who is the Rhode Island Forest Auditions President the experience as a member of the Rhode Island and Massachusetts Bar is an occasion before the Rhode Island was important the Massachusetts Appeals Court this period of this fraud courts in both Rhode Island and Massachusetts and the federal districts back in the course of Rhode Island and Massachusetts and our use of appeals to the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals and to the United States Supreme Court you are in this undergraduate degree from the University of Rhode Island to the Dr.VIDU School of Law from when she graduated among other leadership and public service positions to the Morse Sarge of the Board of Governors former Bar Association of Justice On the Board of Governors and task President of the Rhode Island Association of Justice and as a member of the Executive Committee of the Rhode Island Public Health Association in short the life of service that we're in, by representing its clients with diligence and high effectiveness to improve legal progression through its non-profit service, including the service this year as President of the Rhode Island. Of course, thank you so much for being here and speaking with us and to our students that are with me today. President, this year is Linda Lang. She and I bring greetings of respect to our association to you. Roger Lee's University has best law school in the state. We have the law association in the state. It's mandatory in the state and we look forward to our association. So as a first step, we encourage you to apply for a law student associate membership. This year, I'm especially pleased to extend the opportunity to first deal with law students free of charge. As a student member of the law, you receive guest privileges to attend the bar's committee meetings. You will receive invitations to the law association programs. Specifically, law student associate membership benefits include free 24-hour, seven-day a week access to our online legal research library. Now, notice we're not a case maker. And it's soon to be transition to what they would call a fast case. And this will be available to the members only section of the bar association website. You'll also be entitled to an annual official subscription to the bar's informative and thoughtful magazine, now virtual. And I was former editor of this magazine of people that I'm a bar general. It was published four times a year and has great articles of interest to members of the bar. You'll receive discounts for bar association continuing legal education programs. You'll be able to attend on a guest basis at bar's meetings. You'll be able to focus on a large range of matters at these meetings. In particular, you should look into the bar association's new lawyer's committee. It's a great place to get acquainted with the recent bar members. Now, due to the pandemic, the last couple of years have been by Zoom only. Hopefully we're changing that. We have a hybrid Zoom like these without committees and our CLAs. So as President-elect of the bar association, I look forward to welcoming you into our association. I encourage you to take a look at our website at www.ribhar.com. Take a look at our great programs, get a sense for what the bar association can do for you. Help, assistance, any navigation, you'll find that the members of the bar association, the lawyers who practice in the state of Rhode Island, are accessible. We'd love for you to get involved. We look forward to seeing you join us among the ranks of bar members. Thank you very much. It's about the opportunities we need for our bar to engage, or a great example of why it's such an advantage. We have close partnerships with our association, this area, nonprofits with employers. It's a collaborative. It's a collaborative that works for your great advantage. So speaking of collaboration, our next speaker I want to introduce is Greg Hopper. He is the president of the law school's law alumni association. He's also a partner in the law firm of Martin Gilman, where he specializes in all aspects of family, early public, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, including conflicts towards the streets, criminal defense cases, personal activity cases, and contracts. He received his bachelor's degree from junior college and is a jurist and doctorate from our very own rightfully into persons. While we graduated that year in July and September, we agreed to go for a past year of great people's work with our law alumni association. We're working diligently, dedicated, helping others employ along the supporter of this law school interview as our next students. So here's an example. Here's an example of what and who. The president of the Broadway Law Alumni Association, welcome you to our family. You know, you've heard the word family and community tossed around a number of times by all of these speakers, and that's certainly what you guys are joining today. There are obviously a plethora of alums not only in New England area but around the country. We consider you guys part of that group with us now. Looking around this room, your fellow classmates, they're going to be colleagues, they're going to be adversaries, but most importantly they're going to be people that you can rely upon and be upon for help on cases, for job opportunities, client referrals, and the like. So I would encourage you to develop those relationships with your classmates. You know, this is probably my third or fourth time coming to this event. One sitting in the chairs that you guys are now on the other side of the microphone. My favorite part of it is listening to Dean Donnelly Boyling's description of your class and you guys are rock stars. You all belong here, as he said, and are going to find tons of success, not only in school but in your careers afterwards. For any advice if you guys are interested, I'd say enjoy your time here. It's meaningful, you're going to be starting on new paths and find, you know, personal and professional opportunities. So really dynamic. Similar to what Mark had to say, the Alumni Association extends the offer for you guys to attend any of our events. We generally have networking events in Bristol and Providence and in the surrounding regions, Boston, Washington, D.C. California, Miami, et cetera. We, you know, as a matter of course, you'll be getting a bombarded event from me. I encourage you guys to attend those events. We would really love to see those all students come, interact with some of the other alumni, hear about what it is that we do, and you know, figure out what it is that you guys want to do and how we might be able to help you guys out. You know, anecdotally for myself, I, you know, was able to meet a great group of alumni when I was a student. That led me to having a partnership with Justice Flaherty who is, I'm going to speak to you in a moment, much more exciting than I am. So, again, I would say welcome. You guys are awesome. You're going to succeed and do great. Please come to our alumni event. We want to have you for the very least to tell you all more stories and buy and drink. So, that's something that if you're a student, please comment. If not, there are other people that have one toward all other than that. You know, get involved, meet your classmates, have fun, and welcome guys. You got a question? Take a moment to reflect on what he just said and take a look at what he graduated with. He's a leader in the department of the ground. So then to you and to the future here, wherever you may be, the ground. So, the next speaker is a wonderful student. How many of you are there? She is someone, most of you are starting at her from yesterday, and we were hanging on slack at the front door. She is the president, and she's our associate. And in that role, I get to work closely with her. And the other administrative faculty at the school get to work closely as we work to assure that we, as a law school, meet our needs. Law school, as I call it, may of you, is not the same as an underburden. It is more work. We work with our students, and our school is as good as it possibly is. You can't be aware that we're training our future colleagues for law, as I told you this morning. Diane is an excellent colleague. Excellent student and an excellent colleague. I'm proud to work with her. I'm proud to work for her. I'm very grateful for her leadership. Last year, in her role as vice president of the business community, she was instrumental. I made sure that we successfully got through the year and all the challenges we're going through. So she's deeply involved in the student life of our school. In addition to serving as the president this year, the vice president of last year is a member of the law school's family law society. She's a new law student association, a multicultural law student association. Witness law society, health law society, and she also participates in our first generation in state school. She received her bachelor's degree in psychology from the Justice Department of the University, which makes her a teacher at the University of Iowa. Dan, I'm proud to thank you. Welcome to the student bar association. Welcome to law school. It is absolutely an honor to represent a possible teacher in our state school of law, as the president. Before I begin giving you guys any advice, let me tell you a little bit more about me. So my name is Diana Perez. I'm from Warcraft, Rhode Island. That is the total town. We're not the only part of the province. Our own mayor, police department, school system, crazy, I know. But now you know a little bit more about me. After graduating from Warcraft High School, I went to Rogerville University. I graduated in 2018 with a bachelor's degree in criminal justice and psychology. Another contact about Rogerville University. When you're at undergrad, you actually call the school Roger. We don't call it our move. We're obviously don't do that. We'll make a face and correct you. Yes, we do understand that Johnson and Wiles University calls themselves J-Woo. We don't care, we stood up like our move. After undergrad, I did between the airport program called City Grade Competence. There I was a student success coach and I had to deal with fourth grade in the classroom. And then I had to call in the faculty of Roger from Wiles University. Roger Williams Law is a dynamic law school full of well-respected faculty and staff members. And an administration who truly cares. While many of them may seem to intimidate and enjoy the first few weeks of classes and they will be intimidating, do not be discouraged. Even if you mess up on a cold call or get back to the case wrong, it will be okay. The staff and professors will still be there for you to talk about it in any way that they can. Honestly, everyone in law school is so worried about themselves, like if they're messing up or anything that. They're not really paying attention to you. And if you don't believe and think about when you got pregnant today for orientation, I'm sure some of you guys were like, am I even wearing the right outfit? Do I bring a pen? Do I need my backpack? What about the laptop? And what if I say something dumb? But honestly, it's like the gym. You go to the gym and you're so worried that people are incorrect in your camera or looking at you at the gym, but everyone's too busy thinking about themselves. They're really not looking at you. So, it does feel kind of strange to be standing in front of a little guy because I do remember just two years ago feeding with various teeth, listening to all the speakers and listening to the SBB president of that year. And there was one thing that he had said that really something. And that was, you know, in law school, they say that there's little light at the end of the tunnel. And in law school, you realize that really is true. But then you realize, it's just a dream and it's coming right at you. And I have to say, I've never really said anything more about it. Remember that you are all intelligent and accomplished people. You would not be here if this wasn't true. So, take a breath and just trust in yourself. You worked hard to get to this point. You will all be okay, but I also won't lie. It's not going to be a walk in the park. And you're going to work like never birds in your life no matter what your background is. Law school is not just lectures, outlines, cold calling, and reading. It's a messaging. So, if I pull up and get ready for the round of roller coaster, because the impact will hit you, and some days will be long, but the weeks will fly by. So, now for some advice I'd slash word to put something in. One thing that I think helps me the most, why I went all year, and something I hope stays with you guys the most if you listen to anything that I say, no one knows you better than yourself. In fact, you're the only person who will always be on your team. In law school, especially, you're going to get a lot of advice, but take it all with a grain of salt. Do not drop everything to try to become the perfect law student. If you're a hand writer with your notes, do that. If you like to take notes with your laptop, do that. If you're a morning person and work about it early morning, do that. If you're a late evening, do that. What works for one person or even a professor may not work for you, and that's okay, and you can still succeed. Once you get your written grades back, if you're not happy or you want to improve, then slowly alter what you're doing that still fits into your comfort zone. Remember, you're all smart and hardworking people, and that's why you're here. On the flip side, because you're all been successful in life, that's another element about law school that makes it hard. Everyone in this room has been successful at one point in their life, and have been at the top. Now you're amongst a group of people who have all been at the top, and you're about to embark in a subject that is difficult and not always easy to understand. And it's basically like learning a new language. So the idea of feeling unintelligent is new territory for many of you. But once you become okay with the idea that it's okay that you might walk into class without understanding material, and that will happen, just know it will be clear about what's here in the class, and if you still understand the subject, either ask the question in class or go to office hours. I know many of you are going to still be nervous, but none of the staff, professors, and administration at this law school is all going to help you. They really do care about their students. And we're all rooting for you, and we're here to help in any way we can. So good luck, and welcome to law school. Law school in Providence College, Korean College of Law School, we serve the United States Army to make this escape to the 1970s. The service includes the Plexus of Vietnam, and the Army of London, and so on and so forth. Justice Flarrant, thank you. Justice Flarrant retired from the Rhode Island Supreme Court in December of 2020, assuming that has nothing to do with the fact that I've just gotten to the States, and I've had it. I can't prove that. We're very proud to have you serving as a distinguished jurist and residence at our law school, at an early age. I have been a lawyer in my 18th year as a law professor, and in my 18th year as... I'm honestly saying that I have rarely met someone in my professional career who is welcome. It's Justice Flarrant who is proud of our law school. It's Justice Flarrant. Justice Flarrant. Thank you very much. So it is a kind of thing that he has joined us today to say a few words to you as you begin your law school careers and to administer to you your law schools of professionalism. Justice, thank you so much for being here today. To get teaching it, to draw it to your litigator or whatever you might be doing, it's challenging. I went to law school. Again, I've been in competition with various law schools and visiting various law schools in different one role or another, one reason or another. Law schools can be pretty cut-throat places. It's every man and every woman from self or herself in a lot of law schools. I haven't seen this here. This is a law school where the students care about each other, they help each other. There's a lot of collaboration. It's a wonderful aspect of this law school and I think you've chosen well in coming here. No matter where you came from. I've discussed with the dean that, not in the courtroom, that sometimes I get it back. It's one of the great things about being on the Supreme Court is even when you're wrong, you're right. So I told him when I was referred to this school that Rhode Island is only law school or the only law school in the state. I think it's a value to this school because the school hasn't reached that goes now way beyond way beyond the borders of this state. As you can tell by the recitation of where you came from and what you've done, this is not a local law school anymore. In its fourth century of existence it has been a leader in the cutting edge of experiential law school clinics. This law school is out front and it is truly a very, very good place. I served as an active member on the Rhode Island Supreme Court. I almost said the United States Supreme Court. I'm one of them. Rhode Island Supreme Court owes 18 years and 39 law courts. I counted them up the other day. That this law school has almost a relationship with our bar and with our judiciary. But I can tell you, I can look you in the eye and tell you that's not the reason the graduates of this law school could be blocked. I can't afford in a job I do, I cannot afford that. I just couldn't afford that kind of camaraderie to work. I needed law clerks that were smarter than me during the bang. Thank God they were all going because all the judges realized that the clerks are leaders. They started to realize that all them are smarter than all of us. So thank God they can go. Newbies coming in just like you are today. But this law school produces quality lawyers. And as you mentioned, one of my clerks sitting on the Indian Greyhawk Court for me in 2013, he was terrific. Every single one of the law that I had from Roger Williams has been terrific. Other judges would tell you that as well as the judges who had clerks in the superior court and the attorney general's office set special assistant attorney generals. I congratulate you. It is now my honor to square you in. The opportunity to square many of you in for the second time after you've taken the bar exam and have become members of our law or some other law. And so with that ladies and gentlemen as you embark on your law school career today, I ask you to stand and raise your right hand. It's the study of law. Do not only square. To display integrity and civility. To come into contact. To respect the law and the legal system. To seek justice. To seek justice. Observe to the Roger Williams who will honor and promote. This, do our square. This, do our square. Congratulations you propose an honorable professional teacher every one of you. I look forward to having you in class. I look forward to seeing you all here in three years, four years from now. I look forward to seeing you all in court. Congratulations.