This graduation season, New York's law schools brought their commencement activities back to physical spaces after three years, and some invited the classes of 2020 and 2021 to join this year's class in festivities that they were unable to enjoy earlier in the pandemic. Graduates from the Empire State's 15 law schools are heading into a world—and a legal industry—that has seen some changes from the last time that J.D.s and LL.M.s were able to gather together, take the stage and see everyone off as they head off into what's next. (Spoiler alert, graduates: it's very likely that some meetings, depositions and even court proceedings are going to stay virtual.) But a number of the schools' picks for commencement addresses this year seemed to serve as a reminder that change can be good. Judge Eunice Lee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the first judge with experience as a federal public defender to be appointed to the New York-based court, delivered remarks on Tuesday for graduates of the Cardozo School of Law. Earlier this month, the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University's graduation class heard remarks from U.S. Rep. Grace Meng, who got her J.D. from Cardozo Law and who is the first Asian American woman from New York to get elected to Congress. And Judge Laura Taylor Swain, who after the late and legendary Constance Baker Motley is the second Black woman to serve as chief judge for the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, spoke at the commencement for the Fordham University School of Law.