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Obama entered Harvard Law School in the fall of 1988. He was selected as an editor of the Harvard Law Review at the end of his first year,[42] president of the journal in his second year,[38][43] and research assistant to the constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe while at Harvard for two years.[44]

During his summers, he returned to Chicago, where he worked as an associate at the law firms of Sidley Austin in 1989 and Hopkins & Sutter in 1990.[45] After graduating with a JD degree magna cum laude[46] from Harvard in 1991, he returned to Chicago.[42] Obama's election as the first black president of the Harvard Law Review gained national media attention

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