In December of their 1L year, classmate and friend Mac Warner offered Tom tickets to the Army/Navy football game in Philadelphia. Tom accepted, asked Jane to go with him, and they joined Warner and his date on the road trip.
“This was in the midst of first semester exams, and we really should not have gone, but away we went!” Jane recalled.
Jane describes it as a whirlwind romance. Two months after that football double date, they were engaged. They got married that August, two weeks before their second year of law school began. They missed the first three days of classes to go on their honeymoon. When they returned, they spent much of their time as newlyweds in the law library.
Their advice for couples in law school? Enjoy it.
“Those three years as a couple and law students were somewhat magical for us,” Jane said. “After you graduate and your respective careers have begun, and you start a family if you choose, your time as law students will not happen again.”
Tom and Jane live in Charlotte, North Carolina. He is a partner at Childress Klein, one of the Southeast's largest real estate development, investment and management companies.
