Every Single One: The Politicized Hiring of Eric Holder’s Education Section
Anon…
Yes, you DO want them to hire more generalists, because that provides a much broader base of legal knowledge. The one’s listed above specialized too early to have gained a thorough understanding of the law. I wouldn’t hire any of them to handle any type of moderate to complex legal work. They are actually “trainees” in a sense because they are so limited.
I’ve worked with these types and they have all been very hard-headed, foolishly naive and extremely biased. They wouldn’t listen to the more experienced attorneys (or paralegals) and made extremely poor decisions (or indecisions). Thankfully, the lead attorney reviewed their work and caught the NUMEROUS costly errors. They never lasted long.
Do you really believe that law students learn that much applicable law in law school? NO! That’s just the mere basics. It takes years of general legal work to begin to understand the complexities. THEN you can specialize. When you hire lawyers, as those above with such limited backgrounds, you are creating an atmosphere ripe for bias and abuse.
Think of it this way, would your hire a doctor that has only performed a couple of general surgeries during internship, and the rest of his career was spent on removing ingrown toenails, as a heart surgeon? Nope. Don’t underestimate the long-term effects of biased, inexperienced legal opinions!!!
