International Law

A Conversation with Elizabeth Wurtzel, Author and First-Year Lawyer

By Handakte

Readers know we?ve been following the Wachovia/Citi/Wells Fargo situation fairly closely. But yesterday, we learned a little something new about the lawyers on the case. While Boies, Schiller & Flexner?s David Boies, George Frampton, Amy Neuhardt and Philip Bowman led the charge for Wachovia, Team Wachovia also picked up contributions this week from a first-year associate named Elizabeth Wurtzel. Yup, that Elizabeth Wurtzel ? the author of Prozac Nation, Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women, and More, Now, Again: A Memoir of Addiction. Wurtzel graduated from Yale Law earlier this year and on Monday started life as a first-year associate at Boies Schiller.

Friday afternoon, we talked with Wurtzel, 41, who spent a good hour with us chatting about a range of things, from New York after 9/11 to the writing life to her first week in a pressure-filled law-firm office. (…)

Quelle: Blogs WSJ vom 11.10.2008

Full post as published by Handakte WebLAWg on October 11, 2008 (boomark / email).