A Celebrity Senator Comes To The Defense Of Biglaw
Some people in Biglaw have big hearts, according to Senator Cory Booker.
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.