The University of Cincinnati College of Law sent off the Class of 2010 into the world today at our graduation ceremony at venerable Music Hall  They are our 177th graduating class, making us the fourth-oldest continuously operating law school in the country.

It is always a reflective day for the faculty, as we watch with pride as each of the graduates march confidently across the stage to collect his or her diploma from the dean.  It is hard to believe that almost three years have passed since I welcomed 1/3 of them to law school in my week-long Introduction to Law course. 

One of the highlights of the ceremony was the address by Justice Stephen J. Markman of the Michigan Supreme Court (University of Cincinnati College of Law Class of 1974).  But my favorite commencement address remains Conan O'Brien's 2006 speech to Stuyvesant High School: