THIS IS MY NUMBER ONE QUESTION. Even over can openers and the other time, so this is saying a lot. But I have wanted to know this since forever and I have all sorts of overthinking to share. HOORAY.
Ready for the timeline?
We know Harvey met Jessica in the mail room at PH (or whatever it was then) and she got him to go to law school. He had to have a college degree before this point (so I like to think he went to college on a baseball scholarship and then an injury killed the dream of going pro and he ended up in the mail room). Harvard is a 3-year program, and then it takes about 7-8 years as an associate before you make partner.
He started at PH after Harvard (meeting Louis as a first-year associate), and at some point went to work for the DA per Jessica's recommendation. He was back at PH by 2007 when he made junior partner. And then made senior partner 4 years later in 2011. The question I still have is at what point he came back to PH from the DA's, as I assume he was back at PH as a senior associate for at least some time - a year? - before we saw him make junior partner.
OKAY. SO. Here's where things start to fall apart. Let's say it took Harvey the full 8 years to make junior partner. That puts him graduating Harvard around 1999.
No matter how you slice it, for him to have been working with Donna for 12 years by 2011, then they had to meet either while he was still at Harvard (maybe he was doing a summer internship at PH?), or while he was a first-year at PH. I can't see them meeting at the DA's office because that was just too late in the timeline, even if he was only at PH for a year before going over - unless it took him 9 years to make partner, which is possible given that Donna does bring up the fact that his dad has been wondering when they are going to do so. But really? Come on, this is Harvey. Seems unlikely it'd take him longer than average to make partner.
So my theory is really that they met before the DA and that somehow he brought Donna with him when he went there. God only knows how, but again, this is Harvey we're talking about, so he figured out something! And it's likely that she was the legal secretary to the junior associates when he and Louis were first at PH, which means she also supported Louis at one point in time. And the fun I'd have with that is just endless. :D It also means that she knew Jessica before they went to the DA which could explain why she was able to come back to PH with Harvey as his personal assistant before he made partner.
I might be TOTALLY off on the timeline, of course, but that's where I keep netting out each time I try to plot it out.
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Date: 2012-10-11 07:02 am (UTC)Ready for the timeline?
We know Harvey met Jessica in the mail room at PH (or whatever it was then) and she got him to go to law school. He had to have a college degree before this point (so I like to think he went to college on a baseball scholarship and then an injury killed the dream of going pro and he ended up in the mail room). Harvard is a 3-year program, and then it takes about 7-8 years as an associate before you make partner.
He started at PH after Harvard (meeting Louis as a first-year associate), and at some point went to work for the DA per Jessica's recommendation. He was back at PH by 2007 when he made junior partner. And then made senior partner 4 years later in 2011. The question I still have is at what point he came back to PH from the DA's, as I assume he was back at PH as a senior associate for at least some time - a year? - before we saw him make junior partner.
OKAY. SO. Here's where things start to fall apart. Let's say it took Harvey the full 8 years to make junior partner. That puts him graduating Harvard around 1999.
No matter how you slice it, for him to have been working with Donna for 12 years by 2011, then they had to meet either while he was still at Harvard (maybe he was doing a summer internship at PH?), or while he was a first-year at PH. I can't see them meeting at the DA's office because that was just too late in the timeline, even if he was only at PH for a year before going over - unless it took him 9 years to make partner, which is possible given that Donna does bring up the fact that his dad has been wondering when they are going to do so. But really? Come on, this is Harvey. Seems unlikely it'd take him longer than average to make partner.
So my theory is really that they met before the DA and that somehow he brought Donna with him when he went there. God only knows how, but again, this is Harvey we're talking about, so he figured out something! And it's likely that she was the legal secretary to the junior associates when he and Louis were first at PH, which means she also supported Louis at one point in time. And the fun I'd have with that is just endless. :D It also means that she knew Jessica before they went to the DA which could explain why she was able to come back to PH with Harvey as his personal assistant before he made partner.
I might be TOTALLY off on the timeline, of course, but that's where I keep netting out each time I try to plot it out.
Aaaaaand... DISCUSS. <3