Fifty-Something Law Grad Found BigLaw Job a Tough Gig But Has No Regrets About Earning a JD

After a career in television production, Barbara Griff decided to go to law school. In her fifties when she graduated in 1996 magna cum laude from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, she has no regrets about earning her juris doctorl degree. However, she found the BigLaw job she got after graduating a tough gig, says Griff in a Careerist post. Age discrimination was minimal. And being older was actually an advantage in relating to clients as she worked first as an associate at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton and Garrison and next at Loeb & Loeb in New York. But this kind of job was not the right…