Stanley Chess

Stanley Chess is an American legal commentator and former bar review course executive.

Chess was Editor-in-Chief of the Cornell Daily Sun during the 1968-1969 campus unrest and was a member of the Quill and Dagger society. Following the takeover of Willard Straight Hall, Chess wrote an influential editorial entitled, "Friday Night - Ugly and Stupid" which called for the equal application of law to both black and white students following an episode where white students "joustled" then President James A. Perkins.[1] He graduated in 1969 and received a law degree in 1972.

Upon graduation, Chess organized courses to assist law students to prepare for bar examinations. He became an executive in Barbri. After selling his interests, he started a new venture called Legal America, Inc., which operates a number of law-related websites including, lawschool.com, lawcentral.com, lawtv.com, chesslaw.com and a legal blog called En Passant.

Chess then founded an alumni association for the Cornell Daily Sun, financing $145,000 of the acquisition cost of an office building for that publication.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ Downs, Donald Alexander (1999). Cornell '69: Liberalism and the Crisis of the American University. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. p. 133. ISBN 0-8014-3653-2.
  2. ↑ www.cornellsun.net
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