In a new editorial, the New York Times frets that when it comes to the Supreme Court’s current business docket, too many corporations are hiring lawyers that are just too effective, experienced, and well-respected. Or, in the Times‘s words, too many “former lawyers in the Justice Department’s Office of the Solicitor General” are going into private practice for paying clients, rather than becoming “professors, judges or other kinds of public servants.”

The Times‘s concerns are overwrought. First, the Times fails to note that although Solicitor General’s office alums do largely enter private practice and work for corporate clients, the very same lawyers also tend to take on large volumes of pro bono cases on behalf of nonpaying clients.