Conservative Commentator Ann Coulter Hated Law Firm ‘Suck-Uppery’
Before she became well-known as a conservative political commentator, Ann Coulter worked as a lawyer.
It wasn’t a happy time, she told the New York Times. After graduating from the University of Michigan law school, Coulter worked at Cahill Gordon & Reindel in New York and then at a public interest law firm. She hated both jobs.
“At a big law firm you are doing so much mindless work and so much suck-uppery,” she told the Times. “And I am not a suck-up kind of person.”
She then “seized upon becoming a political commentator,” the Times says, starting a column in 1998 and writing a book called High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton. Most of her income comes from speeches; she earned about $25,000 at a recent event in Raleigh, N.C.
Some people think she made the wrong career choice, including Bob Guccione Jr., who dated Coulter in the late 1990s and founded Spin magazine. “She could have argued cases before the Supreme Court,” he told the Times.
