Non-Top-Tier Law School Graduate of the Day: Eric Krautheimer
We've been having a lot of fun with Non-Top-Tier Law School Week here at ATL. So we're extending it, to include all of next week. As we mentioned before, if you have a story idea that fits under this theme, please email us.
As part of this special celebration, each day we're going to highlight a successful non-top-tier law school graduate, and honor this person as our Non-Top-Tier Law School Graduate of the Day.
Here is today's winner:
Name: Eric M. Krautheimer
Law School: Western New England College School of Law, 1993
Current Position: Partner, Mergers & Acquisitions, Sullivan & Cromwell
Why He's Our Winner: Eric Krautheimer is a partner at S&C, one of the world's most prestigious and profitable law firms. In 2006, profits per partner at S&C clocked in at $2.82 million. Innumerable Harvard-Yale-Stanford grads would KILL to be in his shoes.
The best part of his job: (allegedly) ordering a prissy little Columbia boy to "bend over" and take it (where "it" = a corporate document).
Talk about living the non-top-tier dream!
(56) Comments
FIRST!!!! Shout out to all my homies at S&C!
Bend over, bitches!
This guy is my hero. It's so much more impressive to make partner at a Biglaw firm coming from Western New England than from H-Y-S.
Anyone know how he did it? I notice that he also got an LLM from NYU, which might have helped.
He's lawyer hot, and then some.
he even looks non-top tier.
why would anyone allow such a horrible photo of themselves be posted?
Surprisingly, apparently he is married.
1:35 PM: Are you kidding? This guy is a classic candidate for a trophy wife.
T10 grads don't tell colleagues to bend over. Another case of lower-tier grads ruining the profession for everyone.
He's hot! I'd bend over for him anytime.
If anyone wants to see what a deceptive place Loyola is, just consider this:
On the front of Loyola's website, they include links to articles mentioning Loyola professors. On Monday, the front page had this link:
“News: Dean David Burcham was quoted in the Wall Street Journal on job prospects for law school graduates.”
Today, that link is gone, havinb been replaced with an older link.
Shame on you Loyola. Don't try to hide the truth.
T10 grads are the ones bending over.
L2L, if you are going to post the same thing over and over, at least correct your typo.
Tier 2-4 week is really condescending. I wish I never went to law school (honestly-not a shtick).
There has to be some sort of nepotism at work there.
There has to be some sort of nepotism at work there.
I don't care if he is the son of the Pope he must be able to do the work and make clients happy.. Only an insecure T-10 bitch would claim that he made partner on the basis of nepotism..
Or it could just be a very bright, hard working guy with no patience for snobbish pricks who probably worked for a large corporation or investment bank right before going to lawschool and gives a shit about work and gives lectures and does not just sit around and moan and groan and cruise the internet.
Run-on sentences to 190k (words)!
TTT posters who write run-on sentences to 0K
Eric (2:41), with those writing skills, it's a good thing you're not a litigator.
The LLM from NYU probably helped a bit.
You'd think a guy pulling down $2MM could afford a razor.
ANybody else notice that he has an NYU LLM? I guess that took some of the stink off his JD, but they didn't teach him how not to be a homophobic jerk. I tell you, you can take the alwyer out of the east jesus state branch campus school of law, but...
Yes, 3:00. We read that in 2:50's comment.
he got an LLM from NYU immediately after getting a JD... is this done by people who have less than stellar grades from their JD years? will firms take a better look at you if you have a respectable LLM and maybe less decent law school grades and/or went to a law school like New England? (fyi... i'm not in law school yet..)
If you go into tax or related tax areas in M&A an LLM from NYU is required!!! Even if you went to HLS...
does anyone know the admissions rate for the NYU LLM? seems like everyone and their ttt mom gets one, but i'm genuinely curious.
What do people here think about LLM's? Are they worth doing, or are they a waste of time? Can anyone who has actually gotten one discuss whether they have much value? Or can any attorneys involved in hiring say whether LLM's are taken into consideration?
3:19 - Unless the field is tax, getting an LLM typically is a waste for a graduate of an American law school. If Krautheimer's NYU LLM is in tax, it most likely made him a ton more marketable to biglaw.
When a tier 4 grad is working in Biglaw there is something going on.
Either
1. somebody owed someone a big favor;
2. Dad, mum, father in law, mother in law works(ed) at the firm.
Everybody knows that a regular Joe with no connections submitting his resume to Bigalw from a Tier 4 is going to get it thrown in the garbage....unless nepotism is working.
The guy works his ass off and gets the job done and makes partner. He did it through amazingly hard work and now gets nicked by some jackass who thinks he can float through life.
Fortunately there is little chance of you getting shit on your hands from reading this post. But I did just take a big S.
Who cares whether it was or was not "nepotism"? It's a private law firm. They can do all the nepotistic hiring they want to. Only people that seem to care are those of you who are so insecure that your prestigious credentials will be so devalued by working with some grads of lower tier law schools...
3:41, how do you know he works his ass off? you're in no better position to make that claim than someone else who suggests he got position through favors, unless you're privy to additional information.
Even his picture has that "I got here through hard work, screw you t10 document monkey" look.
He billed something like 3600 hours a year and made partner at an elite firm. Do you think he got there by whining about how mean the partners were to him?
Where are people geting 3600 hours? Did some T2 grad employed as a garbage man find his timesheets in a dumpster?
He billed 7700 hours last year, and ate sixteen children.
If he were higher-tier, he wouldn't have had to work so hard to succeed, and would have had more time to exercise as a result.
Anyone who bills 3700 is a loser.......he will die of a heart attack at 40.
Yes, if he had not worked so hard he could be skinny like the dude that filed the lawsuit.
Wait, this guy tells a gay associate to "bend over" and we can't rip on him just a little?
If you've ever met or seen that Charney kid, you'd know that a stiff wind would offend him. Some folks are just hyper-sensitive. I don't know Krauthammer or whatever he calls himself.
4:20 is obviously fat.
I interviewed with this guy at the LA office.....I had no idea at the time, but we spent a lot of the time talking about why he moved out to CA, how his wife hates in it CA, etc. Funny thing is, I specifically asked to me with openly gay attorneys, ha ha ha. I went to dinner with a gay associate, he asked me if there were any S&C rumors I wanted dispelled, I can imagine what he was referring to.
Anyways, he seemed like a very nice guy, but I guess that sort of thing is hard to tell in a 30 minute interview.
Oh and as as per the photo, its a pretty flattering picture of the guy if you can believe that.
4:59, if you write as well professionally as you do in a blog post, it is a freaking miracle you got as far as an interview at SC. You are a disgrace to the QWERTY keyboard and whatever crap law school you currently attend. Expect your no-offer letter in the mail this week.
You're all missing the real scandal here: ATL is going to terrorize us with a whole additional week of "non-top-tier-law"??!!!
5:09 = small penis
I went to college in Western Mass., and I must say Eric looks pretty emblematic of the townies in the Berkshires
If you have a law degree from Harvard, Yale, Stanford or any other top 10 school and would kill to make 2.82 million a year you don't get it. There are a lot of options available to you if all you want to do is work long hours and make money.
7:30: Sure most grads from Harvard or Yale can make partner at some V50 firm that pays above 1.25MM-1.5MM in profits per partner. But most of them would not consider this to be such an awesome position, unless they make partner at one of the truly top firms (otherwise, it is still a step down in prestige). That's why Lat emphasized that some people would "kill" to make partner at S&C, this is not just about the money.
Doesn't this show that Harvard/Yale are more well-respected than NYU/Columbia? If Charney had been a Princeton undergrad, Yale law grad, does anyone think that Krautheimer and his crap diploma would have felt comfortable telling him to "bend over and pick it up."?
Are top of the class at a tier 2 more deserving the middle of the pack students at a top school? One tier 2 professor thinks so:
Some neat things about teaching at a moneylaw school . . . In hiring, the top of the class is valued over the identity of the school because at any school people who finish in the top 10 are smart, ambitious, and driven. (The other schools hire for credentials even though they are as reliable as cubic zirconium as an indicator of value.)
http://money-law.blogspot.com/2007/09/some-neat-things-about-teaching-at.html
From my most recent recollection of the rankings, Western New England resided firmly in the FOURTH tier. Why all of this SECOND tier trolling/commentary. I realize the difference is largely academic (pun intended) but the ascent to partnership rising from the depths of the crud in the bottom of the trash is more astonishing than making it from the loose refuse hovering near the rim.
Once you get in the damn firm, no one cares about what law school you went to except yourself.
i heard he scissor-kicked angela lansbury once.
Why all the anonymous posts? How about getting a pair and posting with your name.