The J. Reuben Clark Law Society seeks to embody the the values employed by J Reuben Clark during his practice: religious conviction, service, excellence and fairness. J. Reuben Clark, a graduate from the Columbia University School of Law, was a distinguished lawyer who spent most of his career in public service. He served as solictor of the State Department, Under Secretary of State, and eventually Ambassador to Mexico. During World War I he was a major in the Judge Advocate General’s Officers’ Reserve Corps, and served for a time while on active duty in the US Attorney General’s office preparing emergency legislation and war powers of the President. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal. The last 28 years of his life he spent as a member of the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.