 After working in Washington, D.C., for former New York Congressman Chuck Schumer, he entered Harvard Law School and earned a Juris Doctor (1991), also "magna cum laude".He was a Notes Editor at the "Harvard Law Review" when his classmate Barack Obama was its president.Genachowski clerked for The Honorable Abner J. Mikva on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C.