Hometown:
Torrance, California

Undergraduate:
Arizona State University,
Journalism
Graduation: May 2010

Awarded:
Amicus Lex Scholarship

Andrew Bernick finished at the top of the class in his first year at Pacific McGeorge, and credits the subject matter for his strong showing.

“If it’s something you’re interested in, you look forward to studying,” he says. “When you take the exam, you’re not dreading what’s on it.” Bernick’s college journalism experience also helps him write with clarity and concision, he added.

Bernick works as a research assistant on campus. He also works part-time for the Civil Justice Association of California, researching and summarizing appellate cases involving product liability, employment law and other cases of interest to the tort reform group.

Here again, he sees similarities between journalism and the law. “The mission is to seek the truth. The facts are out there,” he explains. “You’re trying to gather information and see where it leads you.”

Bernick tips his hat to his evening-division classmates, many of them with fulltime day jobs and young children at home. “I really don’t know how they can do it,” he says.