Nick Allard begins voyage as dean of Brooklyn Law School
The walls in the office of Nick Allard are newly painted in a deep teal green, evidence that the new Brooklyn Law School dean has a knack for flair with a deference to the traditional.
A longtime Washington, D.C. attorney and lobbyist, Allard, who was grew up in Northport, Long Island, and in Suffern, N.Y., has expressed his excitement to be coming home. He says that Washington lawyers ask the question, “What should the law be?” As the dean of a major metropolitan law school, he will ask, “What should law school education be?”
Aside from serving as an incubator for legal minds, law schools are tools of innovation. Brooklyn Law School’s position as a leader in public interest programs, extensive legal clinics, and a pioneer in the admission of women and minorities, has made Brooklyn a vehicle for innovation, and Allard seeks to seize upon that innovative character.