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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Can any of you who worked at a large firm (hell, or any firm) name one person who came from night school? This idea that the best talent comes from the most elite schools is a joke. Our firm's partnership adheres to this delusion and there are very few partners who went to elite schools! There is a real disconnect about how people process themselves versus everyone else.
TM
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My firm big law was what passes for "white shoes" around here. I was night school, but my boutique merged in there. I don't know if it would have hired me. My last big law had exploded from mid-sized to big (and nothing here is big in the sense NYC means) in the decade before I joined. The firm was kicking ass and driven by people that came up with a chip on their shoulders, night schools, shitty schools, hell there were people who went to Cooley.
By the time I joined they were seen as equal to the old line big law. We started interviewing "the elite" and the CEO, who was night school and too smart to not get this, got starry eyed. We started hiring these kids like mad. And the firm started to sputter.
