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Speaking Truth To Powerlessness, Howard Lesnick

Vanderbilt Law Review

I have offers from three New York firms, and wonder if you can tell me which one is the most prestigious. A third-year student seeking my advice a year or two ago The most striking aspect of Patrick Schiltz's essay is that it directly addresses students. In word (the salutation) and deed (what follows), he speaks, not to the folks who help rule the world (judges, legislators, officials, weighty practitioners, and those rulers-once-or- twice-removed, professors), but to those who are hoping-dare they?-to ascend to some future vacancy in those positions.

Schiltz's message is in two parts: First, he tells students …