I was reading a story on 'why are fraternities even still allowed' and it brought up that every judge talked to about the Stanford case had geek letters in their office from their fraternity, then I remember this legal advice I got once, it went like this 'wait till your trial is appointed a judge, find out what fraternity said judge was in, then look for a lawyer who was also in that fraternity. ' apparently it's VERY effective. So yeah... it's actually really crazy.