Elizabeth Wurtzel (prozac nation) is dead at 52.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m the PP who went to law school with her. To be clear, Elizabeth was never particularly interested in studying the law (she got a 152 or something like that on the LSAT) - but no one at my school doubted she was extremely talented. And she wasn’t a vanity hire - David Boies was a fan of hers, from what I heard. That said, she was never going to be a partner at BSF or any other big law firm. My classmates are all very sad, she was an incredibly charismatic and magnetic figure.

That’s what a “vanity hire” at a law firm is so glad you could clear it up.

Lol whatever. That’s not a vanity hire at all.

So she was hired for her legal talent to bill on cases? No, she wasn’t. She also wasn’t hired for her ability to bring in clients. Pure vanity hire.

She was hired at least in part because she went to YLS. Most, if not all, of my classmates got biglaw associate job offers. She had the added name value to go along with it, but that doesn’t make her a vanity hire.

The fact that BSF hired a best-selling author despite the fact that she was never licensed to practice law does make her a vanity hire.

She passed the NY bar exam in 2010. Thus, she was licensed to practice law.

+1 Most law students are hired before they pass the bar. Common practice is to have a job offer at graduation, study for and take the bar over the summer (some work while doing this), start work in the fall, and get bar results in November or December.