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“"People lie," Mike told me. "That happens a lot around here. Some people just can't deal with not being at the top. They lie to their classmates and they lie to employers. It's gotten so bad," Mike said, "that firms are thinking about requiring a transcript before they hire."

a wife and mother who even as a law student had continued to place her family first…was widely admired in the section for holding that kind of distance on the law school's demands. But when grades came out, even…she had to take part in that great show and tell.
"I've never been a busybody," she told me, "I've never been a gossip. I don't care what my neighbors do. But I'm just crazy to know how everyone did."

"I don't think you should be getting the grades you'll be receiving this afternoon. I've always thought that the first year should be pass/fail. None of you are far enough along for these grades to reflect with any accuracy any of the permanent, highly ineradicable differences between people which are measured by exams. So I urge you not to take these grades this afternoon too seriously."