Biglaw, Crime, Law Schools

Who Is The Mystery Law Student Who Came To The Rescue Of A Biglaw Partner?

If you're the law student who might have saved this partner's life, please come forward!

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John P. Rowley III (via @ABC7Stephen)

John P. Rowley III (via Stephen Tschida aka @ABC7Stephen)

Who says law school students and recent graduates have no skills? One GW Law student just saved a Biglaw partner — in the most literal sense.

No, we’re not talking about finding a killer citation, or catching an overturned case in a brief about to be filed. We’re dealing with a far more serious situation, as described by WJLA in Washington, D.C.:

A man is recovering from a shattered hand and cuts and bruises Monday after a group of teens jumped him at the Gallery Place Metro station on May 12.

John Rowley says when he stepped off a Metro train and was walking through the station the teens attacked him.

John P. Rowley III is a lawyer — and not just any lawyer, but a former federal prosecutor and current partner at Baker McKenzie.

And the bystander who came to his aid comes from the legal profession too:

[Rowley] says as they were pummeling him a young man stepped in to try to pull them off. Rowley says had the good Samaritan not taken action, it’s likely the teens would have thrown him onto the tracks.

He believes he mangled his hand when the teens tossed him at a passing train.

Rowley says he hopes to find the George Washington University law student whom he believes may have saved his life.

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Above the Law has a significant law school readership. Might you be the GW law student in question, or a friend of this student? If so, reach out to John Rowley, so he can express his gratitude to you.

If you don’t already have a summer associate position, perhaps that’s about to change….

P.S. This isn’t the first time a law student has come to the aid of someone in a train station. See this 2012 story, Law Student of the Day: A Good Samaritan Hero.

Man recovering after vicious attack by teens at Gallery Place Metro station in D.C. [WJLA]
Metro: Arrest made after passenger claims he was attacked at Gallery Place [Fox5]

Earlier: Law Student of the Day: A Good Samaritan Hero

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DBL square headshotDavid Lat is the founder and managing editor of Above the Law and the author of Supreme Ambitions: A Novel. He previously worked as a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey; a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; and a law clerk to Judge Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. You can connect with David on Twitter (@DavidLat), LinkedIn, and Facebook, and you can reach him by email at [email protected].

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