Football Star Conner Kempe Turns Eye to Law

Conner Kempe is best known for his role as a starting varsity quarterback at the Benjamin School, and later at Dartmouth College. Although Conner Kempe’s achievements on the field were many, and included spots on the Ivy League Football Honor Roll, recognition as one of the top five career passers at Dartmouth, and multiple broken records for yards passed at the Benjamin School, the renowned student athlete has decided to trade his playbook for law books.

After graduating from Dartmouth College in 2012, Conner Kempe secured admissions offers from twenty different law programs throughout the country. He chose the Stetson School of Law, located in Gulfport, Florida, and he is now pursuing a degree with an expected graduation date of May 2015.

Conner Kempe was inspired to pursue a successful career in law largely by his father, who leads the law firm Joseph C. Kempe, Professional Association, Attorneys and Counselors at Law, in Jupiter, Florida. Conner Kempe interned with his father during the summer after his first year of college, learning about estate and tax planning, investment, trusts, and a variety of other topics related to financial law. This aspect of the legal field spoke to Conner Kempe’s interests in economics, which he was studying at Dartmouth.

Later, Conner Kempe also interned with Congressman Thomas J. Rooney (R-FL, 16^th District), and gained experience with more public aspects of law. He sat in on hearings and votes, wrote summaries and reports, and communicated with constituents about current issues such as the debt ceiling and health care reform.

With this experience, Conner Kempe decided to pursue a career in law. Although only in his first year of law school, Conner Kempe already knows that the decision was a sound one, as he finds the material extremely engaging and enjoys speaking with professionals about their own experience in the legal field.