Peter Nickles: Hero or hellion?

Brooke Fineberg was in her last year of law school at George Washington University in 2009 when she got an offer to work for a law firm, but she would have to do some pro bono work until starting in the fall of 2010. She called a law school classmate who was working as a special assistant at the D.C. attorney general’s office. “Great job,” he said. She applied and landed one of the coveted gigs.

“I was really interested in doing government work,” she tells me. “Luckily, my firm considered the attorney general’s office pro bono.”