Ok - she was a lawyer for Barney the Purple Dino.
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Michelle Obama's Law Firm Boss: She Was An Insufferable Complainer
http://www.patriotroom.com ^ | October 6, 2008 | Bill Dupray No kidding? The Disgruntled One was also a whiny pain in the ass at her first law job?
Being Barney The Purple Dinosaur's lawyer might do it to you.
The group went out of its way to give Michelle work suited to her interests. When an opportunity came in to handle the budding public television career of Barney, the purple dinosaur poised to become a phenomenon among American children, Goldstein says he and others felt it had Michelle's name written all over it.
"Michelle had some smattering of public interest" experience, says Goldstein, who is now at the firm of Freeborn & Peters in Chicago, "and so we said, 'That's it: Public television, you're in on it.' "
The firm's task was to manage the trademark protection and distribution of Barney plush toys and other merchandise, Goldstein says, and to negotiate with public television stations that wanted to broadcast the show.
You will be shocked to know that the same endearing personality traits we have grown to love were also on full display at Sidley & Austin.
Quincy White, the partner who helped recruit Michelle and who headed the marketing group, remembers finding her a challenge to manage. White, who is now retired from the firm, says he gave her the most interesting work he could find, in part because he wanted to see her advance, but also because she seemed perennially dissatisfied.
She was, White recalls, "quite possibly the most ambitious associate that I've ever seen." She wanted significant responsibility right away and was not afraid to object if she wasn't getting what she felt she deserved, he says. . . .
[The work was] too monotonous for Michelle, who, White says, complained that the work he gave her was unsatisfactory.
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