About
Converge for Impact fosters, supports, and promotes collaboration between workplace law academics and attorneys around emerging issues of research and legal strategy. Converge believes that professors in the classroom and practitioners in the courtroom form a shared community of workplace law experts. By creating pathways for dialogue and exchange, we aim to operationalize workplace law theory and cultivate practice-relevant scholarship. Together we can advance workplace law research and improve the state of workplace law.
Rachel Arnow-Richman
Director
Professor Rachel Arnow-Richman, the inaugural Gerald A. Rosenthal Chair in Labor & Employment Law. Professor Arnow-Richman teaches and publishes in the areas of employment law and contracts. She is widely known for her work on noncompete reform and labor mobility issues, the MeToo movement and the rights of accused harassers, and for a series of articles proposing mandatory advance notice and severance pay for terminated employees. She participated in drafting the Uniform Law Commission’s recently passed Uniform Restrictive Employment Agreement Act and is a past chair of both the Labor & Employment Law Section and the Contracts Section of the American Association of Law Schools.
About the Rosenthal Chair at UF Law
Professor Arnow-Richman’s appointment was made possible by Gerald A. Rosenthal (JD 73) and his late wife, Ingrid M. Rosenthal, who investment enabled Florida Law to recruit a nationally-recognized expert in labor and employment law to the law school.
Samuel Bloch
Program Fellow
Samuel Bloch is a third-year J.D. candidate at the University of Florida Levin College of Law. He received his B.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University in 2024. He recently worked as a Summer Associate for Kirkland & Ellis LLP in their New York office.
At the Levin College of Law, Samuel is currently the Negotiations Chair of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Team, as well as a Senior Editor for the Florida Entertainment and Sports Law Review. He has previously served as the President of the Entertainment, Art, and Sports Law Society, as well as Gators Gone Global, a professional organization assisting students in finding employment outside the state of Florida.
Following graduation, Samuel plans to return to Kirkland & Ellis to work full-time within their Executive Compensation, Employment and Benefits group.
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