BigLaw in Booker Boost

BigLaw in Booker BoostBigLaw in Booker BoostPeter Boyers excellent New Yorker (abstract only) on Cory Booker is a lot of things a political history of Newark a sort-of convincing attempt to define an Oprah Winfrey wing of the Democratic party and a grim account of last summers triple murder in the Ivy Hill section of the city, which may end up a defining event for the Booker mayoralty.There is a law firm angle to thestory as well after graduating Yale Law School, Skadden Arps granted Booker a fellowship that paid him $37,000 roughly equivalent to midlevel associates bonus to practice public interest law in Newark. Money well spent. (Another Booker-Skadden connection firm alumnus Aney Chandy is special counsel to the mayor.)-posted by brian