It's snazzy stuff for a venerable, white-shoe firm so taciturn that it omits the Goldman name on its headquarters tower a few blocks south of Wall Street.

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Mazzio's included a law degree from Georgetown University, a partner position at white-shoe firm Brown Rudnick in Boston and board-memberships at the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra and the National Rowing Foundation.

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In New York, it's probably because you're stuck past midnight at your entry-level job at Goldman Sachs or some white-shoe law firm.

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White should also recognize that the SEC faces the same talent pool issues as do all federal bureaucracies: Is it preferable to hire some Ivy Leaguer from a white-shoe law firm for three years or to reward and cultivate the hard work of an SEC employee seeking to make a career in regulation?

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