Exhibiting extensively in regional and national competitive and invitational exhibitions, as well as solo shows in Michigan and Chicago, Whitaker received regional attention from the media, museum curators, and commercial galleries
immediately out of graduate school.
These are essential skills and areas
of knowledge that may have formerly been learned on the job as a young associate, but now that so many recent
graduates are hanging
out their own shingles
immediately after graduation and firms are seeking young lawyers who need less training and can hit the ground running, law
schools need to pick up the slack and provide this education.