Mukasey earned his bachelor’s degree at Columbia before graduating from [[Yale]] Law School in 1967. He left his law practice in 1988 for his appointed position as federal judge. In 2006, Mr. Mukasey announced that he was retiring to take a job at the law firm of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/washington/16attorney.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin</ref> | Mukasey earned his bachelor’s degree at Columbia before graduating from [[Yale]] Law School in 1967. He left his law practice in 1988 for his appointed position as federal judge. In 2006, Mr. Mukasey announced that he was retiring to take a job at the law firm of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler.<ref>https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/16/washington/16attorney.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin</ref> |