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against him. McCormick, who took the helm of the court in May 2021, is negating that assumption with each hearing., a lawyer who spent nearly two decades in Delaware practice, and now runs Penn Law's Institute for Law & Economics, described McCormick.
Smyrna is a humble, middle-class town in a state replete with wealth, not a place known for producing judges who decide the country's most consequential business cases."There's money in Delaware," said Daniel Atkins, a Delaware attorney."It ain't in Smyrna." McCormick nonetheless applied herself and became the only Smyrna High School grad to get into Harvard University at the time.
"Katie was interested in coming back home," Atkins said,"and so that was a really great opportunity for us." Atkins hired McCormick, and right after graduating she joined the agency's poverty unit, working primarily on housing discrimination. McCormick's salary wasn't comparable with private practice."Not even close," said Atkins, now the executive director. But the work aligned with her values and she quickly established herself.
After years of appearing before it in private practice, McCormick became Vice Chancellor of the Delaware Chancery Court in November 2018. Then, less than two years into her term, COVID-19 hit and created the greatest business disruption in a generation. The pandemic forced McCormick to lean on her philosophy degree and consider what duty meant amid the chaos. Especially in the case of a cake decorator named DecoPac.