It’s graduation season, which means the same rituals are playing out across the country: gowns adjusted into place, camera rolls filling up, and one last collective pause before real-life demands become more imminent. But at Northeastern University’s Class of 2026 commencement—our alma mater, and a rare point of overlap for both of us—the messages snapped into focus with unusual precision for anyone working inside the legal industry right now.
Hilary Duff urged graduates to architect their own lives with deliberate intentionality, reminding them that “Success isn’t just about what you achieve. It’s about what you choose.” This sentiment was amplified by Northeastern President Joseph E. Aoun’s assessment of the digital frontier, telling the audience that “Technology scales information. It doesn’t scale trust. It doesn’t scale wisdom. It cannot comprehend the moment when you look a friend in the eye, and they know without you saying a word that you have their back.”
That’s the crossroads law firms are standing at today, where information is abundant but poses risk.
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