Beyond NYU: Finding a voice in patent law

Jennifer Wu started attending the NYU School of Law in 2001, just weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks. She was living next to the World Trade Center and recalls watching the towers fall from her criminal law classroom in Greenwich Village. Unable to return to her apartment, she took refuge in a friend’s nearby dorm room. Displaced and seeking a room, Wu visited the office of John Sexton, then-dean and later president of NYU, who handed her keys to a new apartment — no paperwork or conditions. She remembers feeling treated like family, one of her favorite things about NYU’s values. Wu now lives blocks away from the apartment, and recalls thinking she would never leave New York: “I’m gonna live here forever,” Wu told WSN. “This is my home.” While some looked for ways out of the city, Wu’s commitment to the community that embraced her amidst chaos was only heightened. After graduating from NYU Law in 2004, Wu became a patent trial and appellate lawyer at a firm she co-founded.

This excerpt comes from the named source. Read the original for the full reporting.