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Sidley Austin Rescinds Offer to New Hire Suspected of Setting Fire to 9-11 Chapel
ABA Journal ^

Posted on 11/06/2009 10:03:25 AM PST by Chet 99

Updated: The law firm Sidley Austin has rescinded an employment offer to a Harvard law graduate who has turned himself in to police for allegedly setting fire to a Sept. 11 memorial in Manhattan.

The suspect, 26-year-old Brian Schroeder, is a 2009 graduate of Harvard Law School, the Harvard Law Record reports. He was a 2008 summer associate at Sidley Austin; a permanent offer of employment has been rescinded, Sidley Austin partner Bill Conlon told the ABA Journal.

Schroeder turned himself in for the blaze at the Memorial Park chapel housing the remains of unidentified Sept. 11 victims on Saturday evening, according to the New York Post and the New York Times. The remains were unharmed, but mementos such as photos and flowers were either damaged or stolen. Sources told the Post that the Saturday morning fire may have been set as part of a drunken dare.

Schroeder was co-president of HLS Lambda and served on a task force considering the impact of military recruiting on the campus gay community, according to the Harvard Law Record. He was a theater major as an undergraduate at Duke, and acted in Harvard's school satire called the Parody. He also edited the Harvard Latino Law Review.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 911chapel; arson; brianschroeder; groundzero; nyc
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1 posted on 11/06/2009 10:03:25 AM PST by Chet 99
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Schroeder was co-president of HLS Lambda and served on a task force considering the impact of military recruiting on the campus gay community, according to the Harvard Law Record. He was a theater major as an undergraduate at Duke, and acted in Harvard's school satire called the Parody. He also edited the Harvard Latino Law Review.
2 posted on 11/06/2009 10:03:48 AM PST by Chet 99
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What a sick creep...


3 posted on 11/06/2009 10:05:33 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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Well, the diversity officer at Sidley is disappointed. He lost a twofer and will have to readjust his quotas. But a gay, female, Latina would be even better.


4 posted on 11/06/2009 10:06:42 AM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: Chet 99

This guy certainly hit all the liberal dumbass checkmarks on the resume.


5 posted on 11/06/2009 10:06:46 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim (Live jubtabulously!)
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To: Chet 99
Funny story.
Sounds like this boy is Obama administration material.
Not only is he a leftist, he's nuts.
6 posted on 11/06/2009 10:06:46 AM PST by Hans
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To: Chet 99

Sounds like Obama will have to whip out another waiver for this future czar.


7 posted on 11/06/2009 10:10:34 AM PST by kingu (Party for rent - conservative opinions not required.)
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To: Chet 99
The suspect, 26-year-old Brian Schroeder, is a 2009 graduate of Harvard Law School, the Harvard Law Record reports. ... Schroeder was co-president of HLS Lambda and served on a task force considering the impact of military recruiting on the campus gay community, according to the Harvard Law Record. ... He also edited the Harvard Latino Law Review.

Gay AND Latino? A twofer! Recruiters at law firms rarely get a twofer. Who is this guy, Perez Hilton's girlfriend? Does anyone care to guess whether he has Daily Kos or MoveOn.org bookmarked on his computer?

8 posted on 11/06/2009 10:13:19 AM PST by Philo1962 (Iraq is terrorist flypaper. They go there to die.)
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To: Chet 99
The law firm Sidley Austin has rescinded an employment offer to a Harvard law graduate who has turned himself in to police for allegedly setting fire to a Sept. 11 memorial in Manhattan.

There's got to be an opening in the Czar ranks in Obummer's administration for a talented twink like this. And speaking of filling openings, Barney Frank will surely volunteer to offer accomodations.

9 posted on 11/06/2009 10:14:47 AM PST by RoadKingSE (How do you know that the light at the end of the tunnel isn't a muzzle flash ?)
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Schroeder turned himself in for the blaze at the Memorial Park chapel housing the remains of unidentified Sept. 11 victims on Saturday evening, according to the New York Post and the New York Times. The remains were unharmed, but mementos such as photos and flowers were either damaged or stolen. Sources told the Post that the Saturday morning fire may have been set as part of a drunken dare.

That's a particularly vile act. Speechless...

10 posted on 11/06/2009 10:29:42 AM PST by DoughtyOne (Unseal the lock box containing every document pertaining to Obama's life, TODAY!)
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Wasn’t Sidley Austin where Michelle worked? (and where Bernadine Dohrn continues to work?)


11 posted on 11/06/2009 10:34:00 AM PST by nanetteclaret (Unreconstructed Catholic Texan)
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To: Chet 99

OH, man, what a loss. He had all the diversity points down!

All he had to do was to declare he set the fire as a diversion to escape from a gay bashing incident from brutal white male heterosexuals, and he would have been home free.


12 posted on 11/06/2009 11:08:31 AM PST by IrishCatholic (No local Communist or Socialist Party Chapter? Join the Democrats, it's the same thing!)
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I’m shocked they didn’t immediately promote him to partner!


13 posted on 11/06/2009 11:13:15 AM PST by Night Hides Not (If Dick Cheney = Darth Vader, then Joe Biden = Dark Helmet)
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To: Chet 99
"Schroeder" is a Latino homo lawyer/actor arsonist?

He's quite the go-getter.

14 posted on 11/06/2009 11:15:43 AM PST by Trailerpark Badass (Happiness is a choice!)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
This guy certainly hit all the liberal dumbass checkmarks on the resume.

They like them liberal, but not THAT liberal. A liberal acting on his beliefs is too radical. Then again, that wouldn't explain Bill Ayres success and rehabilitation.

15 posted on 11/06/2009 11:16:33 AM PST by Pearls Before Swine (Is /sarc really necessary?)
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An unidentified relative of Schroeder’s told the Post that he has no radical political bent.

Other than being a homo Latino military-hating fire-bomber.

16 posted on 11/06/2009 11:18:38 AM PST by Trailerpark Badass (Happiness is a choice!)
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To: DoughtyOne
Dammit, Doughty! If a Harvard man can't burn down a bloody church, just who the Hell can?

Lighten up. Come on everybody. It was just a chapel, not St. Patrick's Cathedral! This amusing young fellow deserves to be forgiven and given a place on Team Obama. Van Johnson's Czar spot just happens to be open.

Also Obama could create a spot for him. How about Czar of Gay Latino - Religious Group Relations - or driver for Dede Scozzafava -- coat holder for Rahm Emannuel during his ballet lessons -- like that?

In short, I feel that you members of the VRWC are behaving in a thoroughly racist and homophobic (sorry, "Binary Gender Normative") manner. When this splendid young fellow is named by our POTUS to be something like "Czar of American Family Life and Morals," you may have to eat your words.

17 posted on 11/06/2009 12:01:30 PM PST by Kenny Bunk ( Obama voter? Learn where he was in 2006, and what he did.)
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Heh heh heh...

Isn’t it amazing the education this guy was exposed to, and yet this was the ultimate outcome? Of course one has to keep in mind what ‘education’ this guy was actually getting. You couldn’t convince me he wasn’t exposed to professors that hate our military and wish it to fail.

This guy was primed to fail, more thank likely at the mosque, at his university, the leftist media, and by the political leftists in our nation.


18 posted on 11/06/2009 12:15:58 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Unseal the lock box containing every document pertaining to Obama's life, TODAY!)
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What HR Dept on the planet takes a look at those ‘credentials’ and says “Yea, we want THIS guy!”


19 posted on 11/06/2009 12:19:53 PM PST by Lurker (The avalanche has begun. The pebbles no longer have a vote.)
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To: Chet 99
Another fruitcake and a lawyer.

The perverts are everywhere...

20 posted on 11/06/2009 12:40:01 PM PST by Publius6961 (Â…he's not America, he's an employee who hasn't risen to minimal expectations.)
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