Our Rick Schmitt, who writes from Washington, D.C., has this piece on Stanford Law grads who are working in the Obama administration. The article ran in the Stanford Law alumni publication. From Schmitt's story:
SLS alumni can be found at all levels of government, plying their trade in the stately corridors of federal agencies and executive offices. Graduates of the law school have long had a history of government service—and a significant number of alumni are now working in the highest echelons of this administration. They are the new GCs in D.C. and include the top lawyers at three Cabinet-level departments, heads of large divisions, as well as several members of the Office of the White House Counsel—arguably the nation’s most elite law firm.
Barely a year into their jobs, they have dealt with issues ranging from terrorism threats to the “cash for clunkers” program and environmental disasters.
“It is the opportunity of a lifetime,” says Christian A. Weideman ’00, deputy general counsel of the Treasury Department, who until February worked with Roberto J. Gonzalez ’03, associate counsel to the president in the White House counsel’s office. “You have to be a little bit lucky, if not a lot lucky, to have one of these jobs. So you want to take full advantage of it. People work hard. They invest enormous amounts of themselves in their jobs—and for good reason.”
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