RONALD WEICH  WAS FORMER CHIEF COUNSEL
TO U.S. SENS. TED KENNEDY AND HARRY REID

EX-LAW PARTNER OF CITY STATE’S ATTORNEY BERNSTEIN
 
A former chief counsel to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and the late U.S. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and a former law partner of City State’s Attorney Gregg L. Bernstein was named early Wednesday to head the University of Baltimore School of Law.

Ronald Weich, the new dean, has been an assistant attorney general in the Obama Administration’s Justice Department since being appointed by the President in 2009.

He succeeds Michael Higginbottom, a professor at University of Baltimore who has been serving as interim dean since the resignation under fire of former Dean Phillip J. Closius, who last year split with UB administrators over the law school’s funding.

A Columbia University and Yale Law School graduate, Weich beat out three former and current deans and associate deans of other law schools for the post. Higginbottom did not apply for the permanent position.

Weich is a former partner of the Washington-based law firm Zuckerman Spaeder LLP, whose Baltimore office was headed by Bernstein prior to his election as State’s Attorney for Baltimore City in 2010.

Founded in 1925, UB is the sixth-largest public law school in the U.S., currently with 1,100 students.
 
— VoB Staff report
 
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