There was one fall, a few years ago, when I was feeling pretty bored with the job and decided to shake things up a bit. Instead of interviewing law students for summer jobs one at a time, I would schedule two candidates in each slot and let them both try to make their case to me at the same time, shouting over each other, interrupting, trying to denigrate their opposition, sometimes physical violence, one time a weird sexual advance that wasn’t quite clear in its intention.
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There was one fall, a few years ago, when I was feeling pretty bored with the job and decided to shake things up a bit. Instead of interviewing law students for summer jobs one at a time, I would schedule two candidates in each slot and let them both try to make their case to me at the same time, shouting over each other, interrupting, trying to denigrate their opposition, sometimes physical violence, one time a weird sexual advance that wasn’t quite clear in its intention.