Selling Harvard Law Students
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Summary:
In this episode of [F]law School, guest Samara Trilling joins hosts Reya Singh and Sam Perri to pull back the curtain on big law recruitment at Harvard Law School. Samara describes the commodification of law students access to whom is sold by the law school and purchased by Big Law firms. Meanwhile, many students feel unduly pressured to move toward career paths they never signed up for. From the white shoe law firms that pay Harvard thousands of dollars for access to the student pipeline to the recruitment timelines that have been moved up so early that students barely know what a tort is, this episode dissects how the system sets students up to serve corporate interests—not justice.
Editors:
Very special thanks to Madeleine Kapsalis and Giovana de Oliveira for production and editing assistance.
Guest Bio:
Samara Trilling is a 3L at Harvard Law School interested in strengthening anti-monopoly law, building worker power and regulating AI. In her seven years as a software engineer prior to law school, Samara built anti-eviction tools at Justfix, city master-planning software at Sidewalk Labs and tools addressing the digital divide and supporting democratic news reporting at Google. Samara has a degree in computer science from Columbia University with a specialization in AI and a concentration in history.
Music:
Our theme music is "I Been Waiting" by Crystal Squad, and you'll also hear segments of "Palms Down" by Blue Dot Sessions.
For more information and complete show notes, go to the episode's webpage: https://theflaw.org/?post_type=articles&p=4467&preview=true.
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