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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Georgetown used to be T14.

Also don't forget about Notre Dame, we have a SCOTUS from ND.

Fordham grads probably do a lot of contract review at the big law.  Not the same as Columbia grads.  Completely different tracks.[/quote]

You’re wrong about Fordham.  OP is clearly talking specifically about NYC.  Fordham law has a good name and good placement in NYC Biglaw.  They’re not doing contract work.  They’re getting the same associate jobs as the Columbia grads, just not as many.  [/quote]

You obviously never went to law school.  [b]Contract review work[/b] is not equivalent to contract worker.  You also never worked at a big law, in whatever capacity.[/quote]

I suspect that neither of you have worked I Biglaw if you use the term "contract review" when you mean "document review" for discovery.[/quote]

I’m the one this idiot/snob says never worked in Biglaw but now I think I get what he’s saying—that he “thinks” that the Fordham grads that the big New York firms are hiring along with the Columbia grads are getting shittier assignments from the get go.  Or something like that.  And he has zero way of knowing that or ever proving it.  [/quote]

They are wrong.  Nobody has the time or leisure of mind to funnel all the "good work" to the harvard grads and all the 'scut work' to the fordham grads.  Why bother even hiring those fordham grads if you're going to spend that much effort on managing them.

Where Harvard > Fordham is that you probably start with 0-1 count (no balls and 1 strike) if you are a fordham grad and a 2-0 count if you are a harvard grad.

The first time a harvard grad makes a mistake... well, everyone is human and mistakes happen.
The first time a fordham grad makes a mistake... I knew we shouldn't have him.

This wears off by their 3rd or 4th year but as a junior associate, you probably get more latitude for mistakes if you have a better degree.
And that pedigree follows you for life. 
You will always be a harvard law grad.

The thing is that the harvard grad is probably middle of his class and likely to wash out before their 5th year, while the fordham grad is top 5% of their class and over the long run, more likely to succeed.[/quote]

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