Trust me, there were no mediocre women in law school in the 1960's, let alone women who graduated at the top of their class, who were among the first women hired in prestigious firms, who were among the first women to make partner in those firms and who were among the first women to lead their city and state bar associations.
"Some are wonderful, some are mediocre," she said of law guardians.
At the time, it was actually little better than a glorified seminary with mediocre graduate schools of law and theology.
And I have a soft spot for a guy who most law professors regard as mediocre as a justice, William Douglas.
Fuzzy Pink Niven's Law applies: It's thoroughly mediocre.
He was a fairly mediocre governor except for the health care law, which he's now repudiating.
We would hardly want our best law firms and science laboratories run by mediocre students just as few of us would pay $100 a ticket to see a minor league team play in Yankee Stadium.
Then he figured there was "not much room for mediocre keyboard players"; so he got a haircut, went to law school, and became the youngest attorney-general in Mississippi for 75 years.
In early 1973, despite mediocre Law School Admission Test scores, Bundy was accepted into the law schools of UPS and the University of Utah on the strength of letters of recommendation from Evans, Davis, and several UW psychology professors.
Shunning details, he was at best a mediocre student, entering Northwestern through the backdoor and later attending law school at Pepperdine when his LSAT score prohibited entry at a more prestigious institution.
