The Dersh v. The Denier

One of the apocryphal stories that floated around the law school when I was a student twenty-five years ago was a story of a young Alan Dershowitz working as a summer associate with one of the big New York Jewish firms (in those days, New York firms were 'Jewish' or 'white shoes' and regardless of how observant or non-observant you were, the 'white shoes' firms would almost never make you a job