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[quote=Anonymous]I’m old now and early retired, but I was an associate and then counsel and eventually made (equity) party on one of the top DC law firms by every measure.

I still vividly remember when going through the senior associate evaluation process with partnership on the line seeing the list of associates in the process and their law schools and graduation years next to their names, including mine.  I attended a T20 but not T14 school (but kicked ass in it) and when I was first going through the process the large majority of the equity partners weren’t just T14 but T5.

I thought it was egregiously unfair.   After 5+ years as an associate in the firm the only thing that should matter is the work, not the school, and we all know that senior old fart white guy partners from Harvard and Yale or whatever are always going to assume that graduates of their schools are by definition smarter and better, at least subconsciously.  I raised this with a member of the evaluation committee and not soon after they discontinued the practice.

Lawyers are a school prestige obsessed bunch.  No doubt about it. [/quote]

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