Respected Recruiter's Creative Email Gets Mixed Results

If you have to bend over for partners at your lateral law firm, you might as well really enjoy it.

Make this partner emeritus your Biglaw sugar daddy.

Make this partner emeritus your sugar daddy.

Back in 2013, during a time when law school tuition was flying high, instead of advising would-be law students to sign up for a staggering amount of student-loan dollars, we suggested a more creative way to finance a legal education. Why not find a “sugar daddy” or a “sugar momma” to pay for your school-related expenses instead?

At the time, we acknowledged that becoming a “sugar baby” would have some definite perks for law students: “When you can afford the finer things in life on someone else’s dime, being a ‘prestige whore’ takes on a whole new meaning. You may have to sell your soul to become a lawyer, but at least if a sugar daddy or sugar momma pays your tuition, you won’t have to sell your body after you graduate.”

Three years have passed, and it seems that our idea is catching on. Law students and law school graduates alike are taking advantage of the sugar-baby craze to pay off their exorbitant law school debts — and even legal recruiters are getting in on the game.

Graduates of NYU Law School recently received an email from executive recruiting firm Parker + Lynch, but many of them thought that it was spam because of its subject line (“Cost of NYU is making it #1 on Matchmaking Site”). As it turns out, the email wasn’t spam at all, but rather, a message from Parker + Lynch’s attorney search director. An astonished source said, “My annoyance at this ‘spam’ quickly turned to shock when I realized it was an actual email sent by a respectable recruitment agency.”

In her email, which notes that NYU students are making money off the backs of their sugar daddy financiers (quite possibly while on their backs), Katherine Loanzon of Parker + Lynch makes what could be the quirkiest recruitment pitch in the world:

Dear Fellow Grads,

Have you heard of how some NYU students are finding unconventional ways to pay off their debt?  According to the matchmaking website, Seekingarrangement.com, where “sugar babies” get matched with “sugar daddies” or “sugar mommas”, NYU students topped the list in “Sugar Baby” registrants.

In 2015, 225 NYU students signed up as “sugar babies”.  This is an ingenious way for students to pay off debt! With the rising cost of tuition, it will be fun to see what other alternative business arrangements NYU students will enter into to pay off their debt.

Our NYU degrees did not come cheap, so career success, along with something like seekingarrangement.com, will get that debt paid off.   I can help with the former.  Is there a good time to chat about your career path and how I can help?

Best,

Katherine Loanzon, Esq.
Attorney Search Director
Parker + Lynch

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Why not allow Parker + Lynch to help you on your path to career success — and incorporate Loanzon’s (presumably tongue in cheek) advice on this “ingenious” debt-repayment plan while you’re at it? After all, if you’re going to have to bend over for partners at your lateral law firm, you might as well really enjoy it.

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