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If you recite the phrase "you have the right to remain silent" really quickly, you have a good idea of this summer associate's name.

Who is Miranda Swift?

100

This three-word phrase is a staple on many signs and throw pillows in houses; Dr. Rick, the guy from the Progressive commercials, would tell you to thrown such signs and pillows away if you want to avoid becoming your parents.

What is "live, laugh, love"?

[Admittedly, a bit of the stretch for the "3L" category.]

100

This law school featuring maroon and gold colors has more summer associates from it this year compared to any other law school.

What is Minnesota?  (4)

100

This returner to our KC office might be able to tell you the ramifications of eating food past its "best by" date, as he is the Managing Editor for the Arkansas Journal of Food Law & Policy.

Who is Donta Dismuke?

100

This is the color of the slanted line that partially comprises the "N" on the Stinson logo.

What is orange?

200

After serving our country during two combat deployments to Afghanistan, this summer is well prepared for his desired career at Stinson in either the corporate finance or trusts and estates groups.

Who is Zack Taylor?

200

Given his name, its no surprise that this Managing & Research Editor for the Minnesota Law Review is interested in finance.

Who is Billy Price?

200

Daisy An, a rising 2L who previously served as a Franchise Development Coordinator for We Simplify the Internet in Toronto, Canada, attends this law school, supposedly because she has always been a fan of football player Rudy Ruettiger.

What is Notre Dame?

200

This rising 3L returner is putting her degree in English from Baylor to good use in her role as the Senior Staff Editor for the Washington University Law Review.

Who is Ashanti Carey?

200

If you need help balancing your checkbook, you might want to ask this rising 2L from Minnesota, as she has served as a financial analyst for both Target and Texas Instruments. 

Who is Maysa Alqaisi?

300

This person was not only a fan of Huddlr, an app that allowed students to see where social events were happening and which of their friends were attending, he was also its co-founder and CEO

Who is Ivan Fan?

300

If you need to jazz up your demonstrative exhibit, you might want to talk to this rising 3L in our KC office; he holds a Minor in Graphic Design and Media from Creighton University.

Who is Austin Tapuro?

300

Two of our summers go to this law school, the same school that our Managing Partner-Elect Allison Murdock attended.

What is University of Missouri-Kansas City?

300

This returner to St. Louis not only can write you a heck of a legal memo, but can also provide guidance on the appropriate limited use of tritones and parallel fifths in your musical compositions.

Who is Ian Herrera?

300

This is the amount of the weekly cash prize for the Stinson vaccination drawing.

What is $500?

400

There are no claims of voter misconduct regarding her elections as upcoming President of the Women's Law Association and upcoming Secretary of the Black Law Students Association at University of Missouri Columbia Law School.

Who is Taylor Harrington?

400

This returning rising 3L is not only a Lawyering Teaching Assistant at the University of Kansas, she can also advise you on your best java options now that you can more freely travel.

Who is Natalie Nelson?

400

Not one of our summers attends this law school located in downtown Chicago (the site of this year's partner retreat), despite being considered by some law-firm game-show hosts to be the top law school in the country.

What is Northwestern?

400

Gabe Kaplan starred in this TV sitcom about a high-school teacher that helped launched the career of John Travolta.

What is Welcome Back, Kotter?

400

This was the team name that recently won the Second Annual Summer Associate Family Feud Tournament.

What is "Be Great"? (Ashanti, Austin and Zach were team members)

500

"Stay Classy, Columbia" was NOT the sign-off phrase this summer used during her stint as Lead Producer and News Anchor at KBIA radio in Columbia, Missouri. 

Who is Betsy Smith?

500

Time for some math: this number, either 40.3, 42.9 or 47.6, represents the percentage of returning rising 3Ls to the summer class as a whole.

What is 42.9%?

500

Only one summer attends this midwestern law school; given its location, there can be no surprise that its anagram is "Cows in Sin." 

What is Wisconsin?   (Ivan Fan attends.)

500

This Lead Note and Comment Editor for the Journal of Law and Inequality at Minnesota might also be a nature lover, as an anagram of her name is "A Marsh Heron."

Who is Sharon Maher?

500

Both ending in the letter "K", either of the two cities that house the smallest number of lawyers in an official Stinson office.

What is New York or Bismarck?  (Both with one.)

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