In late 1901, the Board of Regents of the State of New York granted a charter to the law school. The year began with five students, and ended with 28. Using space provided by Heffley's business school, the law school opened on September 30, 1901, with five faculty members (including Richardson as dean and Heffley as president), and two special lecturers. Heffley reorganized the Heffley School to become Brooklyn Law School, the first law school on Long Island. In 1901, William Payson Richardson and Norman P. The Heffley School of Commerce, formed from Pratt's Department of Commerce, originally shared facilities with Pratt. Heffley, personal secretary to Charles Pratt.
Because of its overwhelming popularity, the Department of Commerce broke off from the main Institute and formed its own school, under the guidance of Norman P. The origins of Brooklyn Law School can be traced back to the Pratt Institute in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, when in the 1890s the school established its Department of Commerce. Korman (US District Court for the Eastern District of New York), attorneys Stephen Dannhauser (Chairman, Weil, Gotshal & Manges), Myron Trepper (co-Chairman, Willkie Farr & Gallagher), Allen Grubman (entertainment lawyer), and Bruce Cutler (criminal defense lawyer), CEOs Barry Salzberg ( Deloitte) and Marty Bandier ( Sony/ATV Music Publishing), and billionaire real estate developers Leon Charney and Larry Silverstein.īrooklyn Law School at 375 Pearl Street (now Brooklyn Friends School) Included among them are New York City Mayor David Dinkins, US Senator Norm Coleman, judges Frank Altimari (US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit) and Edward R. īrooklyn Law School has produced a number of luminaries. Brooklyn Law School's faculty includes 60 full-time faculty, 15 emeriti faculty, and a number of adjunct faculty. Founded in 1901, it has approximately 1,100 students. 1,119 (881 full-time, 238 part-time as of 2014) īrooklyn Law School ( BLS) is a private law school in New York City.
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