Arthur J. Argall of Hometown graduated cum laude on May 18 from the New York University School of Law in the top quarter of the Class of 2017. He received the Desmarais LLP full-tuition merit scholarship for a student in intellectual property law and served as the Patent Committee co-chair for the Intellectual Property and Entertainment Law Society.

While in New York, he served as an associate for the Cravath, Swaine and Moore and the Paul Hastings LLP law firms.Arthur is a 2007 graduate of Tamaqua Area High School and a 2011 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, with a bachelor of arts in biochemistry and an M.S. in chemistry.He earned a Fulbright Fellowship to conduct research in Germany at the University of Heidelberg and in 2014 he earned an M.S. in electrical engineering at Columbia University.He will soon begin work as a law clerk to Circuit Judge Alan D. Lourie of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C.