Hunter Igoe ’17 is having his own kind of “brush with the law” as he works for personal injury attorneys Marting, Harding, and Mazzoti, LLP in Albany, N.Y.
Igoe, a political science major with a pre-law concentration, interns in the workers’ compensation division. He works under 10 attorneys and 12 paralegals, and helps prep cases to see how the firm should proceed. He even drafts appeals. “They consistently trust me and allow me to try things on my own,” says Igoe. “They actually want me to learn.”
In the workers’ compensation department, Igoe assists workers who receive monetary remuneration after an on-site injury. Prepping these cases has taught him not only about law, but also the medical world as well. “I believe more than anything that to practice this type of law, I need to have a good medical background,” says Igoe. “I’ve learned about a lot of different injuries, medicines, etc. I never realized how much you would need to know outside of the realm of law.”
Igoe first encountered civil law taking classes from Professor James Snyder, adjunct instructor and pre-law advisor in the Department of Political Science, and personal injury attorney with Greene & Reid, PLLC. “After his classes, I became extremely interested in it,” says Igoe.
At Le Moyne, Igoe is active in political science, working as the department’s work study, chairing Student Affairs for Student Government Association, and serving as vice president for both the Political Science Academy and the Le Moyne chapter of Model U.N. He also has a creative side. He is the founding president of Le Moyne’s Creative Writing Club, an editor for Le Moyne’s literary journal, the Salamander, and secretary of the improvisation club No Scripts Attached. “One of the things my interviewer found most intriguing about me was my interest in writing, particularly poetry,” says Igoe. “I think well-roundedness helps with nearly everything that you want to do in life; it shows that you’re not one-dimensional, but versatile.”
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