she probably was the perfect clerk. just cut and pasted from both sides' briefs as needed: "Plaintiff argues [Paste]. Defendant in response argues [Paste]. The law says [Paste]..."
it's possible than yours is more impressive. but since her resume is more impressive than most young lawyers, it is probably more impressive than yours too.
tbf, i doubt it's on hers either. I'm not equating good credentials with being a good lawyer or good person btw. I'm just recognizing that most of the legal world think that sdny/coa clerkships are impressive.
1. i disagree with that. v5 takes median throughout the t14, and people with good grades from schools worse than gulc.
2. doing litigation is dumb. but for people that have chosen to do litigation, "not bothering" with a clerkship (in the city in which you're working) in a city as pedigree conscious as nyc is objectively stupid. Life calculus changes if you have to move to flyover, of course.
1. v5 takes median from gulc ITE? i'm not an mfe on ITE recruiting, but wtf? how could this be true with the amount of shit that gulc gets?
2. "not bothering" with a clerkship (especially 3 total years of a clerkship) makes financial sense. clerkship won't affect life outcomes for someone with top credentials, assuming you dont want to do govt/academia.
Date: March 28th, 2015 1:54 PM Author: Self-absorbed sepia digit ratio kitchen
WAIT ONE SECOND. your telling me there are better ***AND*** worse biglaw resumes out there? WHAT IN THE HOLY FUCK, I HADNT EVEN CONSIDERED THIS POSSIBILITY. MY OUTLOOK HAS, WELL,
Date: March 28th, 2015 1:28 PM Author: lilac plaza blood rage
Practice Areas
As of 2011, after careful and deliberate growth, the Firm had nearly 375 lawyers, with 20+ practices including in the areas of white-collar defense, securities litigation, corporate, real estate and land use, intellectual property, Lanham Act litigation, business immigration, employment law, financial services, tax, trust and estates and bankruptcy, some of which are among the strongest in the country. The co-heads of the White Collar practice are Gary P. Naftalis and Barry Berke.
In October 2014, Kramer Levin announced that it had hired Jeffrey Mulligan, former executive director of New York City's Board of Standards and Appeals and a former official of the Department of City Planning, as a planning and development specialist in the firm’s Land Use practice.[7]
Complex Litigation Group
In November 2013, Kramer Levin hired John P. “Sean” Coffey to run its Complex Litigation Group. Coffey had attracted the firm's attention with his “aggressive” defense of Goldman Sachs trader Fabrice Tourre in a Manhattan case brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission. “He had devastating cross-examinations. That is a skill that few people have,” said Kramer Levin partner Barry H. Berke.[8] “We are delighted to have an advocate of his extraordinary ability playing a leading role in our litigation group,” firm co-chair Gary Naftalis said.[9]
Intellectual Property Group
Kramer Levin announced in October 2014 that it had expanded its Intellectual Property Group by hiring Christine Willgoos as special counsel. The firm has “nearly 60 attorneys” working in Intellectual Property.[4]
Drone Group
In December 2013, in response to a suggestion by special counsel Brendan Schulman, Kramer Levin became the first law firm with a drone practice.[10] “It became very clear to me that there was a big need for legal advice in this emerging technology market – not just in litigation, but also for businesses interested in developing the technology,” Schulman explained. One of the first clients of the firm's Unmanned Aircraft Systems Practice Group was Raphael Pirker, who had been fined $10,000 by the Federal Aviation Administration for allegedly flying his drone too low and too close to people while making an aerial video for possible use by the University of Virginia. “The commercialization of small drones will be revolutionary and overwhelmingly beneficial,” Brendan Schulman, special counsel at Kramer Levin, said. “The endless list of applications includes photography and cinematography, search-and-rescue, aerial mapping, disaster response, precision agriculture, wildlife monitoring, pipeline inspection, and so on. Tasks that are particularly expensive or dangerous to conduct with manned aircraft, such as crop-dusting, low-altitude cinematography and power line inspection, can be done more safely and cheaply with drone technology.” In April 2014, the Group represented Texas EquuSearch Mounted Search and Recovery Team, which uses camera-bearing drones to find missing people, in a challenge in the Washington, D.C., circuit to a Federal Aviation Administration directive prohibiting this use of drones.[10] [11] [12]
Date: March 28th, 2015 1:29 PM Author: lilac plaza blood rage
Hmmm...they're usually pretty skittish about controversial authors...
Spencer event
Author Robert Spencer was scheduled to speak in April 2012 at the offices of Kramer Levin about his book Did Muhammad Exist? An Inquiry Into Islam’s Obscure Origins, but the firm canceled the event in response to pressure by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). Spencer accused Kramer Levin of taking “the cowardly way out” by “allowing these Islamic supremacists to control the discourse and prevent free people from speaking the truth.” Quoting a letter to CAIR by Kramer Levin Executive Director Nicholas J. Tortorella, who wrote that the firm had not been “aware of the controversy surrounding” Spencer, Spencer suggested that it would have been less controversial for them to allow him to speak.[15]