There should be a prize for the first one to find a Cooley grad in V100.

Hey OP:

yeah we get it... you go to Columbia, big deal

get over yourself

This is disgusting. Find something better to do with your time (p.s. - you're all "TTT" compared to my "top 2" law school).

Elms college, Touro Law

http://www.skadden.com/index.cfm?contentID=45&bioID=6613

This is a foul and ridiculous exercise. Go back to AutoAdmit, you cads. Ever consider that these folks might in fact be intelligent and competent?

Nasty, nasty children.

http://www.wlrk.com/Page.cfm/Thread/Attorneys/SubThread/Search/Name/Savitt,%20William I win.

How is this a foul exercise?

We're constantly berated on this site with the idiom that you have to go to a t-14 or graduate in the top 10% of a TTT to make it to biglaw. These people have bucked the trend.

I am currently at a second tier school, and seeing people without the standard BigLaw credentials pulling in the big bucks makes me feel pretty good.

Let's be honest - TTT is more than the third tier. Seriously, how is someone who went to Harvard or below not TTT? Yale, okay, if you were Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal - then you probably aren't TTT.

This creates a problem for the Supremes, however - 35 out of 36 clerkships every year have to go to TTT. No wonder so many people complain about the Court.

Person clearly doesn't have enough work and/or play in his/her life to be searching firms' site bios. WTF.

i dont think nino did patent prosecutions in manhattan.

For the person who initiated this thread: Get out of the office. Fall in love. Start a family. There is still a chance that you won't die remorseful and alone, but I doubt it.

6:48 - you should realize that this isn't a thread to celebrate people who bucked the trend and got into biglaw without prestigious pedigrees.

It's a thread to sort out those who, in the OP's mind, aren't worthy for biglaw and should be ridiculed... or something like that.

I second some of the comments made here. I do not have the standard creds, but am on the cusp and hope to break in to biglaw one day. In fact, if someone could address lateraling with decent (but not top) credentials and what is required to break in, that would be appreciated.

OP to douche of the day!

Oh, I know what happened here:
See, the insecure blowhard who posted this thread obviously got upstaged by the person he thinks is a TTT grad and this is his petty, childish attempt at revenge. Really sad. How transparent. Too bad that along with, what I'm sure you perceive to be an illusturious education, no one taught you how to behave. Book smarts, if you actually have even that, will only get you so far.
You know, I went to Brooklyn. The professors were great and the students are really sharp. I know LOTS of people who went there and are at Big Law (note: Big Law actively recruits Brooklyn grads). I would hardly call it a toilet.
I think the only toilet involved in this whole lashing out of yours is your soul. The thing about mean spirited things like this thread is that they always come back to bite you. The universe has a way of righting itself.

I know this thread is mean, but I couldn't help but take up one commenter's challenge--to find a Cooley grad in the V100. Well, here you go.

http://www.foley.com/people/bio.aspx?employeeid=18500&&practiceID=&industryID=&genPageID=&serviceID=

If only having friends, a sex life, and a soul were as easy as getting a good score on the LSAT.
Then we would all be set.

"registered to practice before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office"

There's your answer, genius.

Besides, there are plenty of people from schools that aren't in the top 20 who work in biglaw. They just had to work harder than you did, junior.

6:48 is proof that people at shitty law schools really are stupid.

12:18, your Cooley grad doesn't count, he's a partner.

The pizza prize is still on the table!!

10:02am hits it right on the head. I am a TTT student, I've interviewed at over 25 BigLaw Firms, both in the NYC Market and the DC Market. I got these interviews all on my own accord, with my own credentials, and with a lot of hard work. Yes, I did shitty on my LSAT...and hey, maybe I'm not as "smart" as someone in a T14 school.
But, my TTT has plenty of graduates who work in BigLaw because they worked hard at getting there. Also, not only do they work there, they become partners and some of the "BigLaw" firms in the area have named-partners which were graduates of my TTT. (Thats right, the firm you refer to by single names, that name is that of a TTT graduate in some instances...)

That said, I'm not boasting my law school. Its not the best law school in the country, but, it gives me a law degree and the same possibilities as you T14'ers. The difference is that I made moves to get my 25 interviews while your career services department did all the work for you.

But hey thats the nature of the beast. There is no use in getting worked up over it. If I had received a higher grade on my LSAT I wouldnt have to work as hard for a BigLaw position. That is just the brutal truth, but, because I didnt do as well on my LSAT as the OP does not mean that I can't get into BigLaw or that I will give up on my desire to work in BigLaw.

The difference is simple. TTT grads who want to make it somewhere in life will work hard at getting there. While you get comfortable having people do the work for you, we get used to clawing our way to the top. When I do get to the top I may very well be standing right next to you, but, I know that I wont be buffing the silver platter that my position was handed to me on.

The only thing this thread shows is that a "Cooley Grad" could be giving you (a T14'er) your next doc-review assignment....
Tell him his law school was a toilet - although he might agree - I'm sure he will gladly give you enough work to last through that upcoming three-day holiday weekend.

You might be talking about a guy who does great work and someone clients love to work with. Believe it or not, it helps to have lawyers in your firm who aren't ivy league brats and/or super-nerds.

Soon enough you all can search and find my name on that BigLaw list, as someone from a low TTT school that you've likely never heard of. But as I'm summering at an AmLaw 25 firm, at the headquarters, making just as much or more than the OP here will -- only without any loan debt because my school gave me a full scholarship -- I don't think I'll care what you think of m school. :-)