HOW CAN WE OVERCOME EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT YOU AND COME TO HIRE YOU? It's a very good question, when the "you" is Yale Law student Elizabeth Wurtzel and the "we" is A Big BigLaw Firm, and the "everything we know about you" sounds like this:
Forget about the idiotic post-9/11 remarks, because lots of law students do stupid things. And let's even put aside her weird explanation as to why she went to law school -- that post-9/11, “I really had the feeling that the whole world had gone crazy. I felt very powerless. If I’d been a lawyer, I would have known what to do," because as a lawyer post-9/11, I can assure you that it was an unsettling period for everyone else as well.
No, instead, let's talk about the fact that with a 160 on the LSATs, Wurtzel was much better suited for Northeastern than Northwestern, let alone YLS, which raises serious questions as to their admissions standards. And, more importantly, can she pass the character and fitness portion of the Bar, what with the being fired from the Dallas Morning News for plagiarism and then the going on book tour and having her friends FedEx her cocaine while on book tour (and using her publisher's shipping number).
Stephen Glass didn't pass the New York Bar's character and fitness review, though his substitution of fiction for fact was certainly more pervasive than Wurtzel's decade-old plagiarism. Still, adding the plagiarism to the drugs ... anyone here willing to exclude her from the profession?
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