"And actually, one of the excitements of this job, as well as the excitements of being a lawyer, is you're dealing with the unexpected all the time". To that end, Craig is building a team of lawyers with prestigious backgrounds but a wide range of age and experience.
Mr. Biederman, himself an Ivy League graduate, has noticed that a seemingly prestigious academic background does not guarantee eloquence.
As a result of his prestigious academic background, many of his novels feature medical or scientific underpinnings.
The data also shows that younger founders and founders with prestigious educational backgrounds or prior experience in large technology companies tend to be more successful.
Most upcoming entrepreneurs hold the view that only people with prestigious academic backgrounds and wealthy parents make it in the business world.
Putrid, smelly, overcrowded Victorian Lambeth; the Necropolitan railway rumbling away in the background; prestigious bookbinding business under threat from tyrannical husband's arthritic fingers; angelic girl child's epilepsy getting worse; debt-collectors breathing down her neck - it seems it's the workhouse or the whorehouse for Dora Damage.
I assume a prestigious school does a background and reference check, and that they didn't find anything unsatisfactory.
As I did more interviews, however, I came to see that those extremely fortunate women represented the elite of the elite — and that other women with less prestigious educational and career backgrounds and less high-powered social contacts had a much, much harder time of it.
RIVERSIDE SYMPHONY George Tsontakis's Violin Concerto No. 2, a radiant and highly personal work tinged with Messiaen, Berg, and the music of the composer's Greek Orthodox background, won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award for 2005.
Most students at Peking University, one of the country's most prestigious, come from such affluent backgrounds that researchers last summer had to suspend a long-running survey that rewarded students with second-class train tickets if they would write about changes in their hometowns.
