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ne of Aron Pirov’s favorite professors at Touro
attend school four nights a week.
Law Center is Myra Berman. Decades separate
Pirov could not be prouder or more grateful for the
the student from the professor in age, but coincidence
FlexTime program. He is a husband, a parent and a
and life circumstances are irrevocable binders.
full-time social worker for the City of New York.
Pirov graduated in 2022, as a member of the
And now, at age 43, he is a lawyer. “I’ve wanted to,
inaugural class of Touro Law Center’s FlexTime
and tried to, go to law school for a very long time,”
program, perhaps the only such initiative in the
says Pirov, who came to the U.S. from Uzbekistan
country where students attend classes on Sundays
as a teen. “Even part-time evening law schools
only—including mandatory summer semesters—
were impossible. Work all day, long commute
and receive their law degree in four years. Some
and then sit through classes into the night and
students even fly in from other cities for their
then travel home, do homework, sleep and do it
classes, finding that commute easier than having to
again and again. Impossible. This is one reason I
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