A Celebrity Senator Comes To The Defense Of Biglaw

Some people in Biglaw have big hearts, according to Senator Cory Booker.

Senator Cory Booker (by Bbsrock via Wikimedia)

Senator Cory Booker (by Bbsrock via Wikimedia)

I reject the idea that the guy who comes out of Yale and goes to work in the projects in Newark is good, and the guy who goes to work for a white-shoe law firm is bad. We’re all mountain rangers. We all have peaks and valleys. I know a lot of people who work at nonprofits with men and women coming out of prison. But I also know lawyers at major law firms who help tremendously through pro bono work. Let’s not judge.

— Senator Cory Booker, the Yale Law School graduate who went to work in the projects in Newark (before entering politics), at a lunch interview with actress Susan Sarandon and Philip Galanes of the New York Times.

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