Rep. Tim Brennan

This month I met with the Dean of my alma mater, andré douglas pond cummings, of Widener University Commonwealth Law School.

While in law school in Harrisburg, I had the chance to take specialized courses to to become certified in Law & Government. Among those courses, I was lucky enough to take a legislation class with Vince Deliberato, the Director of the PA Legislative Reference Bureau for almost 50 years (I received a certificate for the highest grade in that class). Few people have had more influence on the quality and direction of legislation in our Commonwealth's' history.

I also had the opportunity to handle significant amounts of actual state related litigation for the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) as a certified legal intern for the Governor's Office of General Counsel. Continuing the government theme, I was a member of the Law Review, writing a comprehensive summary of the 2000 Pennsylvania redistricting, attending the US Supreme Court argument on Vieth v. Jubelirer and drafting a proposed amendment to the PA Constitution to address partisan gerrymandering of congressional districted in our state.

We talked about the continued strength of the connections between the campus and the Commonwealth, the number of state attorneys who graduated from the school and the programs that continue to pull graduates to state work. Many of the student at the school are still working jobs while attending law school and we talked about strategies used to help these students.

The school recently did an alumni profile which can be read here: https://commonwealthlaw.widener.edu/alumni-friends/success-stories/tim-brennan/