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		| Originally posted by Atticus Grinch quote:
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 Covington & Burling hiring partner Mark Plotkin says the firm's lawyers describe making partner as winning "a pie-eating contest where the prize is more pie."
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 That joke is as old as my grandmother's dinosaur.  (Well, at the very least, it's unoriginal.)   Heard it years (YEARS, I tell you) ago.