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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Way to generalize. On second thought, I do iit too. For example, I can’t stand most lawyers. They think they’re smarter than everyone and that completing law school is some huge intellectual feat.[/quote]

As a lawyer in another agency who sometimes deals with State lawyers, I hope you realize that most of them went to top law schools and did very well. I'd wager it's far, far harder to get a legal job at State than become an FSO. [/quote]

This is unquestionably true.  FSOs are a dime a dozen.  Being a lawyer with State is far more impressive.  [/quote]

Yes, and those lawyers are totally insufferable, in my experience![/quote]

I think both of these statements are true. FSOs are insufferable. So are L lawyers. They deserve each other. The taxpayers deserve better.[/quote]

You sound lovely. I wonder how many L lawyers you've actually met/dealt with. If you think they're insufferable and work with them in a professional capacity, you're probably one of the fools who thinks L cramps their style because they actually, gasp, care about the law and ensuring the accuracy of Department products. Luckily for me, your boss or your boss's boss usually cares and I can just go over your head when I need to.[/quote]

I’m actually inside L and probably work with you. The snob factor lives here in L too. I think L and FSOs could both se a huge injection of humility. [/quote]

Of course there are snobs in L. There are snobs everywhere. But do you really think L is snottier than the average population? I don't at all. Certainly not the average similarly situated population (e.g., DC lawyers or State Department employees in general)? I don't at all. I think L folks have gotten more aggressive in this admin because we're so used to the political folks trying to steamroll us/cut us out of the process, but I don't think that's snootiness. I think most folks in L think the law genuinely matters and cares whether State and State products reflect it.[/quote]

I totally agree with you. Especially about this administration. I just also think L would be better with snobbery dampened down. It is not becoming. [/quote]

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