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Found this Kevin Schwartz guy that's a Partner at Wachtell.

SCOTUS Clerkship - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Yale Law School (J.D., 2006)
Oxford University (Ph.D., 2006)
Oxford University (M.B.A., 2002), with Distinction, Marshall Scholar
Harvard University (B.A., 2001), summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Sophia Freund Prize for Top-Ranked summa cum laude Graduate in Harvard College

Kevin trolling on TLS, while humblebragging?

Bossman9 wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 01, 2022 6:48 pm

Found this Kevin Schwartz guy that's a Partner at Wachtell.

SCOTUS Clerkship - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Yale Law School (J.D., 2006)
Oxford University (Ph.D., 2006)
Oxford University (M.B.A., 2002), with Distinction, Marshall Scholar
Harvard University (B.A., 2001), summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Sophia Freund Prize for Top-Ranked summa cum laude Graduate in Harvard College

Kevin is also married to Marty Lipton’s daughter. And is an all-around good guy.

Mine

Also, this is embarrassing, Kevin

Matt Levine @ Bloomberg, although he’s no longer a practicing attorney.

(Also, can you really call yourself elite if you went to YLS but weren’t a “Coker Fellow”? Full disclosure: I have no idea what that is but it crops up on firm bios from time to time. As far as I can tell from the outside, YLS follows the rule that, “all students are equal but some students are more equal than others.”)

Amal Clooney: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amal_Clooney

If you tried to invent the world's coolest lawyer, you'd end up with her.

One of my profs had like 6 degrees. At some point it's overkill, like Marvel giving a superhero 7 PHDs

Also isn't it a waste of all those credentials if someone with such a glittering resume ends up just a lawyer, not even a judge or a senator? Like winning a Nobel prize in chemistry and then becoming a HS teacher/minor druglord.

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 01, 2022 7:50 pm

One of my profs had like 6 degrees. At some point it's overkill, like Marvel giving a superhero 7 PHDs

Also isn't it a waste of all those credentials if someone with such a glittering resume ends up just a lawyer, not even a judge or a senator? Like winning a Nobel prize in chemistry and then becoming a HS teacher/minor druglord.

lol @ senator being an esteemed outcome.

Sackboy wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 01, 2022 8:07 pm

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 01, 2022 7:50 pm

One of my profs had like 6 degrees. At some point it's overkill, like Marvel giving a superhero 7 PHDs

Also isn't it a waste of all those credentials if someone with such a glittering resume ends up just a lawyer, not even a judge or a senator? Like winning a Nobel prize in chemistry and then becoming a HS teacher/minor druglord.

lol @ senator being an esteemed outcome.

I said "not even", but cmon leaving cynicism aside, there's only 100 senators, two per state, and they usually serve a very long time. Of course it's impressive.

hdr wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 01, 2022 7:02 pm

https://www.jshfirm.com/professionals/ehochuli/

Underappreciated response

Bossman9 wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 01, 2022 6:48 pm

Found this Kevin Schwartz guy that's a Partner at Wachtell.

SCOTUS Clerkship - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Yale Law School (J.D., 2006)
Oxford University (Ph.D., 2006)
Oxford University (M.B.A., 2002), with Distinction, Marshall Scholar
Harvard University (B.A., 2001), summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
Sophia Freund Prize for Top-Ranked summa cum laude Graduate in Harvard College

And yet, after all of that, if you Google his name, he's not even the 1st Kevin Schwartz (or 2nd or 3rd) to show up on the results.

Not sure if the most impressive, but a professor at Vanderbilt has the following:

SCOTUS - Scalia
CA9 - O’Scannlain
Harvard Law, JD (Fay - First in Class)
Notre Dame, B.S. Chem. E. (Salutatorian)

Robert Jackson
https://its.law.nyu.edu/facultyprofiles ... onid=45659

Not the most impressive law school numbers, but he really buffed up his credentials afterward https://www.whitehouse.gov/administrati ... ent-biden/

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 01, 2022 9:44 pm

https://www.gibsondunn.com/lawyer/hammer-stephen-j/

Whoa Rhodes scholar + SCOTUS clerk. Nice. Did he not make LR tho? Looks like only fedsoc journal.

Reese1 wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 01, 2022 9:47 pm

Not the most impressive law school numbers, but he really buffed up his credentials afterward https://www.whitehouse.gov/administrati ... ent-biden/

This is the only answer even approaching correct.

The answer is Thomas Jefferson, or Nelson Mandela, or Gandhi.

LOL at anyone picking some random V20 partner or professor.

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 01, 2022 9:50 pm

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 01, 2022 9:44 pm

https://www.gibsondunn.com/lawyer/hammer-stephen-j/

Whoa Rhodes scholar + SCOTUS clerk. Nice. Did he not make LR tho? Looks like only fedsoc journal.

I also believe he received the highest raw score on the Texas Bar Exam and was an Officer in the Army

https://www.law.com/texaslawyer/2019/10 ... vard-grad/

Probably shouldn't make the list but a partner at my firm clerked for both the US and Canadian supreme courts. You know, if you're into that sort of thing...

The guitarist for blind melon

Monochromatic Oeuvre wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 01, 2022 10:12 pm

Reese1 wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 01, 2022 9:47 pm

Not the most impressive law school numbers, but he really buffed up his credentials afterward https://www.whitehouse.gov/administrati ... ent-biden/

This is the only answer even approaching correct.

The answer is Thomas Jefferson, or Nelson Mandela, or Gandhi.

LOL at anyone picking some random V20 partner or professor.

The assignment was not "who was wildly successful despite a mediocre background".

Is Kim K a lawyer yet?

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 01, 2022 9:50 pm

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 01, 2022 9:44 pm

https://www.gibsondunn.com/lawyer/hammer-stephen-j/

Whoa Rhodes scholar + SCOTUS clerk. Nice. Did he not make LR tho? Looks like only fedsoc journal.

Not saying he is one of them (and I don’t know), but within the past decade MANY conservative-leaning students at HLS have not participated in the law review competition at all. Judges know this, and HLR is a much different signal than it used to be. Not trying to start a fight about whether it’s justified, but it absolutely is happening.

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 01, 2022 11:18 pm

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 01, 2022 9:50 pm

Anonymous User wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 01, 2022 9:44 pm

https://www.gibsondunn.com/lawyer/hammer-stephen-j/

Whoa Rhodes scholar + SCOTUS clerk. Nice. Did he not make LR tho? Looks like only fedsoc journal.

Not saying he is one of them (and I don’t know), but within the past decade MANY conservative-leaning students at HLS have not participated in the law review competition at all. Judges know this, and HLR is a much different signal than it used to be. Not trying to start a fight about whether it’s justified, but it absolutely is happening.

I had not heard this before. Why don't conservative-leaning students not participate in the law review competition anymore? I think that people generally still view HLR as a signaling factor. I guess erroneously so. When did this start happening?