Karen McAndrew is one of the few attorneys who has had lengthy discussions of English poetry. In court.
The partner at Dinse Knapp & McAndrew, in Burlington, Vermont, oversees a unique practice area: college and university law. While much of her practice concerns such issues as faculty tenure, student discipline, and employment issues, every now and then she also gets to exercise the literary chops she honed as an English major at Vassar College.
The very size of colleges and universities can invite litigation.
Spoken like a true English major.
“I generally don’t read lawyer books after hours—busman’s holiday,” says McAndrew. “But no one, and that includes me, has ever forgotten Atticus Finch—although I’m not yet ready for the more nuanced version in Go Set a Watchman.