U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch received a phone call from her father the night before she started a new job prosecuting drug and violent-crime cases at the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. It was 1990, and she had just left an associate job at white-shoe law firm Cahill Gordon & Reindel to work for the government.
“You know, I bet if you called your law firm, they’d take you back,” Lynch recalled her father saying during a talk at her alma mater Harvard Law School last week. Similarly, a friend’s mother questioned whether she really wanted to work for the government, likening it to working at the U.S. Postal Service.
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