Although pre-Lewis Katz Building Penn State Law classrooms didn't have all the amenities of the new building, students still recieved a world-class legal education.
Richard M. Olcott, lead designer with Polshek Partnership Architects, speaks at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Lewis Katz Building in January 2007.
Throughout the design and construction of the Lewis Katz Building, the team behind the building facilitated input from attorneys, judges, and legal professionals to ensure the building would be prepared to train future generations of law students for their careers.
As the outside of the Lewis Katz Building took shape, the construction crew worked to ready the inside of the building as well, as seen here in June 2008.
As recalled by Penn State Law director of business services Randy Fulton--seen here during the move into the Katz building--the transition into the Lewis Katz Building was done entirely over a single weekend in December.
During the transition into the Lewis Katz Building, there were plenty of set up and little details to be finalized before the building was ready for students.
The Lewis Katz Building officially became the home of Penn State Law in time for the first students who started at University Park to finish their last semester in the new building.
The Lewis Katz Building is regarded as one of the topic academic buildings in the world, having now served as the home for ten years of Penn State Law students during their time at University Park.