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Why do many government officials start careers in BIGLAW?
| Spectacular slippery factory reset button | 04/18/15 |
| pearly locus | 04/18/15 |
| Impertinent titillating library | 04/18/15 |
| Spectacular slippery factory reset button | 04/18/15 |
| Impertinent titillating library | 04/18/15 |
| Spectacular slippery factory reset button | 04/18/15 |
| Impertinent titillating library | 04/18/15 |
| Spectacular slippery factory reset button | 04/18/15 |
| claret old irish cottage | 04/18/15 |
| topaz vibrant plaza mad cow disease | 04/18/15 |
| Spectacular slippery factory reset button | 04/18/15 |
| Pink fragrant codepig selfie | 04/18/15 |
| vengeful charismatic dragon rehab | 04/18/15 |
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| vengeful charismatic dragon rehab | 04/18/15 |
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Date: April 18th, 2015 3:33 PM Author: Spectacular slippery factory reset button (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2858108&forum_id=2#27713439) |
Date: April 18th, 2015 3:34 PM Author: pearly locus you know, this thing, called risk aversion. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2858108&forum_id=2#27713446) |
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Date: April 18th, 2015 3:54 PM Author: Impertinent titillating library If you're balling out in finance, why the fuck would you go into govt? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2858108&forum_id=2#27713537) |
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Date: April 18th, 2015 8:56 PM Author: Spectacular slippery factory reset button (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2858108&forum_id=2#27715107) |
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Date: April 18th, 2015 11:33 PM Author: Impertinent titillating library Lol u faggot, maybe they should go work for the faggot government then. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2858108&forum_id=2#27715944) |
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Date: April 18th, 2015 11:33 PM Author: Spectacular slippery factory reset button (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2858108&forum_id=2#27715948) |
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Date: April 18th, 2015 11:34 PM Author: Impertinent titillating library Are you a lawyer? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2858108&forum_id=2#27715953) |
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Date: April 18th, 2015 11:40 PM Author: Spectacular slippery factory reset button (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2858108&forum_id=2#27715991) |
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Date: April 18th, 2015 9:09 PM Author: claret old irish cottage Because you are talking about fucking old people and because pre-2008 it was conventional wisdom that people who are interested in "politics" should go to law school. In the 1990s and before it was even more a part of our cultural mythology...
It takes a long time to climb the govt ladder, so we are mostly talking about boomers and older when we talk about senior government officials.
Moreoever, before the 1980s, it was not prestigious to work in finance, so strivers didn't go after it. That isn't to say that it wasn't dominated by patricians--it was. But, as anyway who has been in the money business for a long time would tell you, most people in money management and sell-side finance were dumb people from rich families who couldn't get into prestigious law schools. That's sort of what the MBA was for--think slightly less wealthy versions of George W. Bush.
I'm sort of an overstating, but basically it was full of complacent old-money types. Over the last 30 years that has obviously changed...
There are plenty of GS people in gov't but that's an idiosyncratic case.
But when you're talking about sr. gov't officials, you're talking about Boomers, and the most prestigious thing for a Boomer striver to do in the 70s/80s was go the legal route. |
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Date: April 18th, 2015 9:18 PM Author: topaz vibrant plaza mad cow disease cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2858108&forum_id=2#27715218) |
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Date: April 18th, 2015 11:27 PM Author: Spectacular slippery factory reset button (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2858108&forum_id=2#27715911) |
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Date: April 18th, 2015 11:29 PM Author: Pink fragrant codepig selfie People started to realize that going into politics via law was flame because law itself is a flame profession full of NOJERB. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2858108&forum_id=2#27715921) |
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Date: April 18th, 2015 11:35 PM Author: vengeful charismatic dragon rehab And boomers made biglaw money while paying shit for tuition to get there. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2858108&forum_id=2#27715958) |
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Date: April 18th, 2015 9:14 PM Author: Chrome cowardly dilemma degenerate process-oriented dorks who don't like actually getting stuff done (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2858108&forum_id=2#27715202) |
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Date: April 18th, 2015 11:33 PM Author: vengeful charismatic dragon rehab $ (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2858108&forum_id=2#27715946) |