HOMEGROWN: Mary Lu Bilek, dean of the UMass Dartmouth School of Law, says that currently, about two-thirds of the school’s students come from within the state. / COURTESY UMASS
For the past three years, Mary Lu Bilek has been dean of the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth School of Law, where she has supported pursuit of accreditation by the American Bar Association and real-world educational programs for new lawyers. Late last year, the law school launched a Commonwealth Fellows program that discounts tuition by $5,000…