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Alumni Video: The World Isn't All Contracts and Torts

Featuring Beth McNellie (Miami 1986)

Partner at Baker & Hostetler, LLP (Columbus office)

Text Transcript

(In this video Beth McNellie talks about how well Miami prepared her for Columbia Law School. She is Chair of the Pre-Law Alumni Advisory Board and a member of the College of Arts and Science Alumni Advisory Board. Ms. McNellie talks about the importance of developing fundamental skills in a video on the CAS Advising website and how her interdisciplinary training informed her problem-solving abilities in a video on the Western Program website.)

"Going to Columbia for law school, I was very concerned that my classmates coming from the real Ivy Leagues would have a leg up on me, either in their academic background or their presentation skills or their writing or whatever. And I was very heartened to learn, when I got to New York and started to compete against those people, that the education I got at Miami was very comparable to the experiences that they had had and I didn't feel handicapped at all.

"But to go back to the interdisciplinary thing, I think sometimes in the law that gets lost, because so many law students don't come from an interdisciplinary background. And they like to think of the world as contracts and torts, and a lot of times those things fit together. And I think there have been times where I've been able to look at a particular legal problem in a way that takes it out of those silos and can turn it in a new way that reflects that kind of interdisciplinary background that I've had. And I think that's been a benefit to my clients."

[September 2011]

Miami University
College of Arts & Science

Pre-Law Program
Maria P. Vitullo, Esq.
prelaw@MiamiOH.edu
159 Upham Hall
Oxford, Ohio 45056
Ph: (513) 529-0877
Fx: (513) 529-5026

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