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August 05, 2009
L'Enfant: Build it up on Jenkins Hill.
Law is the ultimate backstage pass. It's the new priesthood.
--John Milton/Satan (Al Pacino), in L’Associé du Diable (1997)
Never merely a technician, a good Washington, D.C. lawyer is a thinker, doer, creator, planner, problem-solver, consiligere and true trusted adviser. And no lover of routine. His or her firm is not just a shop--but a laboratory for new ideas. Not for law cattle practicing cookie-cutter law. You won't meet better lawyers. Or people. Talented and feisty folks choose to move to Washington; they are not "stuck" here, or here by default. The city brims over with energy and personality. A rich library of people resources.
