The law student who helped fend off youths who mugged a BigLaw partner at a Washington Metro station,
possibly saving a senior lawyer’s life, has been accepted as a summer associate at the firm.
John Rowley III, partner at
Baker McKenzie Washington, told the Am Law Daily that he realised Andrew Miller, a George Washington University law student, would be a good addition to the summer associate program of the firm after getting to
meet him a few weeks after the attack.
“I practiced law for quite a while now and, frankly, natural leaders are hard to find,” Rowley told the publication. “When I met him and I got to know him a little bit, reflecting back on the courage of jumping in, he was the kind of person that we wanted to have here at the firm this summer.”
In May, Rowley was waiting for a train to go meet a friend for dinner when he was attacked. He was punched, kicked, and thrown to the ground, with the teens eventually trying to push him towards the tracks. Rowley broke his hand, which hit a moving train.
The 23-year-old Miller saw the attack and rushed to help Rowley. The teens then turned on him, before eventually fleeing the scene. Two of them were eventually caught at a different Metro station.
“Frankly, while I got some fairly significant injuries, that would have been a whole lot worse because he took some of the punches that were intended for me,” Rowley previously told FOX 5 DC.
“He really is a cut above. I haven’t had too much time to work on him yet, but I am a former federal prosecutor and I am trying to nudge him in that direction,” he said.
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