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Quote of the Day: Was Working on the Torture Memos… Torture?

I have a number of large projects with different people. I would have said no, but it didn’t seem like that was an option here. — Jennifer Hardy (née Koester), now a litigation partner at Kirkland & Ellis, complaining to a friend via email that she was working 12 hour days without breaks at the […]

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I have a number of large projects with different people. I would have said no, but it didn’t seem like that was an option here.

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— Jennifer Hardy (née Koester), now a litigation partner at Kirkland & Ellis, complaining to a friend via email that she was working 12 hour days without breaks at the Department of Justice (where she reportedly worked on the so-called “torture memos”).