Submitted by Legal Times contributor Jenna Greene:
Ah the law firm biography. As a form of writing, these summaries of an associate, partner or counsel's professional experience tend to be informative, slightly boastful, and above all, dull. Unless the lawyer in
question is tax guru Martin Ginsburg, of counsel at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson in Washington and husband of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Below are excerpts from his law firm biography on the Fried Frank web site.
"...Professor Ginsburg attended Cornell University, stood very low in his class and played on the golf team. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School which, in those years, did not field a golf team.""Professor Ginsburg entered private practice in New York City in 1958. He
withdrew from full-time practice when appointed the Beekman Professor of Law
at Columbia Law School and moved to Georgetown University in 1980 when his
wife obtained a good job in Washington.....""...In 1986, someone who probably prefers never to be identified endowed a
Chair in Taxation in his name at Georgetown; no one appears willing to
occupy the Ginsburg Chair, and it remains vacant. In 1993, the National
Women's Political Caucus gave Professor Ginsburg its "Good Guy" award;
history reveals no prior instance of a tax lawyer held to be a "Good Guy,"
or even a 'Decent Sort.' ""Professor Ginsburg is a Fellow of the American College of Tax Counsel, a
frequent speaker at tax seminars, mainly in warm climates, and the author of
one exciting treatise (with J.S. Levin of Chicago) and a ghastly number of
articles on corporate and partnership taxation, business acquisitions and
other stimulating things. Professor Ginsburg's spouse was a lawyer before
she found better work. Their older child was a lawyer before she became a
schoolteacher. The younger child, when he feels grumpy, threatens to become
a lawyer."
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