I was the first tenured woman at Columbia. That was 1972; every law school was looking for its woman. Why? Because Stan Pottinger, who was then head of the office for civil rights of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, was enforcing the Nixon government contract program.
My intent was to go to law school… And then what I realised quickly is what I wanted was to be on L.A. Law.
It always rankled me – in law school and the legal profession – when lawyers would speak to each other in their own exclusive language.
I probably can win a prize for the most ways to use a Harvard Law School degree because of all the things I’m doing.
I’ve reinvented myself many times in my life. I thought I’d become a concert violinist but burned out at 17. I thought I’d go to law school but became Miss America.
None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was ’93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.
I had the opportunity to go to law school, and my dad, who was an accountant, couldn’t believe I wanted to walk away from that and start cooking.
The only thing I learn on a daily basis from law school is that I disliked it and the law so much that it’s constantly this fire at my heels.
I was on my way to law school when a friend of mine at an extras agency said, ‘Do you want to come to this movie set and get paid $100 bucks a day to pretend you’re at a party?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, summer holiday, let’s do it.’ So I went, and on lunch, the writer asked me to audition for a role, and I got it.
In fall 2007, I stood at the midway point of completing my undergraduate studies at Columbia. I studied every moment that I wasn’t sitting in class. I was very focused on maintaining a solid GPA, so I could go on to law school.
I grew up in Singapore, and I went to Australia for law school, and after law school, I started doing stand-up comedy.
When I was a kid, I thought I would be an entrepreneur and maybe at some point go into law school.
I went to law school to help people.
When I went to law school, I had Roger Fisher for Civil Procedure. I never heard anything about negotiations.
Throughout college and law school, as well as in my career as a lawyer and police reform advocate, I’ve faced various toxic combinations of racism, sexism, and homophobia.
I would have gone to law school, or gotten a psychology degree. I wasn’t interested in sleeping on a futon forever. And what happened is I walked into auditions, and I had nothing to lose, because I had a backup plan.
After Yale Law School, I was proud to try to live up to my parents’ example and began my career working for The Urban Justice Center in the streets of Newark, organizing residents to fight for better housing conditions.
I didn’t know at all I wanted to do TV. I thought I might go to law school. I might want to become a history professor.
I finished law school in ’56, but I was working two jobs.
When I went to law school, I took a bankruptcy class with then-professor, now-Senator Elizabeth Warren. And I’ll never forget that first day of class, hearing her talk about the importance of the bankruptcy system.
When I went to law school, which after all was back in the dark ages, we never looked beyond our borders for precedents. As a state court judge, it never would have occurred to me to do so, and when I got to the Supreme Court, it was very much the same. We just didn’t do it.
I went downtown as a lawyer and then I worked in a liquor store at night, as I had done all through law school. And so when I got to the point where I could give up the night job, I joined the political club.
In law school, I earned the respect of professors and served on the editorial board of ‘The Yale Law Journal.’
My recollection is – and I’d have to confirm this – but I don’t recall paying any money to go to law school.
I graduated from college in 2002, and then I went to law school at St. Thomas University in Miami in 2004.
Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in ’69.
At different points in my life, I had grappled with the idea of going into the priesthood – in high school or law school. Where it ends, I’m not quite sure. Perhaps it ends with death, grappling with one’s spirituality.
By the time Clinton graduated from Yale Law School, many people, including her boyfriend Bill, believed she could, and should, embark on a political career. She’d given the Wellesley commencement speech that had earned her a ‘Life’ write-up of her own.
If you had asked me when I was in law school or in college or as a kid, ‘Is Daniel going to be running a food company?’ I would tell you you’re cuckoo. What I was going to be doing was representing Israel at the United Nations.
Just to be in the locker room with the NHL players, go out to dinner with them, hang out with them. I feel like it was an invaluable experience and kind of like going to Harvard law school, I guess, because that’s the best education you could get being around guys like that.
I wasn’t using college as a stepping stone to law school or some other career. I just wanted a liberal-arts education.
During my first round of law school applications, I didn’t even apply to Yale, Harvard, or Stanford – the mystical ‘top three’ schools. I didn’t think I had a chance at those places. More important, I didn’t think it mattered; all lawyers get good jobs, I assumed.
I had loans in law school.
I grew up in a middle-class family. I went to law school.
I basically applied to law school as a way of telling my parents that I wasn’t going to medical school.
Make no mistake about it: Law school is not a bastion of intellectual discourse.
Rubio rode his skill as a high school quarterback to college in Florida, followed by law school.
I’d love to do a court-room drama. I loved ‘Ally McBeal.’ That was one of the main reasons I went to law school.
When I went to law school, I went to learn about justice and equal rights.
The truth is that I’d always wanted to go to law school.
For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It’s why I went to Cornell’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.
For example, I was a White House intern the summer before I dropped out of law school. Everybody knew about it. I’d come home and go to church and everybody would say, ‘Oh, my God. Demetri, you’re working at the White House.’
On my first day at Yale Law School, there were posters in the hallways announcing an event with Tony Blair, the former British prime minister. I couldn’t believe it: Tony Blair was speaking to a room of a few dozen students? If he came to Ohio State, he would have filled an auditorium of a thousand people.
I was in law school at the University of Kentucky and realized I didn’t really like law school, so I took a creative writing course for something different.
I don’t type on the computer or edit. Law students who went to law school really just a couple years after I did were brought up all on the computers and that’s how they do it, but I was still part of the older school.
After law school, I put on my power suit and worked at a series of law firms. By the time I was at my third in six years, it dawned on me that a traditional law job wasn’t for me.
I’ve always thought stability was suffocating and deadly. Like, when I read that the kids I went to law school with have stayed at the same firm, I feel like I’m reading an obituary. How much money do you need? Six million, seven million? Put that in the bank and do something else. Get out!
I got into Goldman really by acquisition because I had gone – I grew up in east New York in the Linden Projects – I did go to fancy schools, but my resume wasn’t up to a Wall Street set of resumes. I went to college. I went to law school and practiced for a while.
I’ve supported a lot of different people. I went to law school with President Obama.
The summer before my third year of law school, I worked at a law firm in Washington, D.C. I turned 25 that July, and on my birthday, my father happened to be playing in a local jazz club called Pigfoot and invited me to join him. I hadn’t spent a birthday with him since I was 3, but I agreed.
When I applied to law school, I wrote on my application that I wanted to do two things. One was to solve antitrust law’s irregularities and problems, and the second was to solve the Arab-Israeli conflict.
I’ve done business with people I’ve met in politics, who I went to law school with, who I grew up with. Who do you do business with? People you meet in life.
When I went to law school, which I put myself through for $100,000 dollars of debt, I didn’t expect anybody to pay for my health insurance, which I had none of. No health insurance.
I have spent my years since Princeton, while at law school and in my various professional jobs, not feeling completely a part of the worlds I inhabit. I am always looking over my shoulder wondering if I measure up.
In my own experience, I plotted and planned my life when I was getting out of law school to know by what year I’d make it to the Supreme Court. That didn’t work out the way I planned.
Most of the discrimination I have encountered centered on the view that I am not a part of this great nation, even though I grew up in Ohio, graduated from law school in Washington, D.C., and received my commission in the U.S. Air Force in 1991.
