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good article. Anna is a great writer. Maybe she should fill in for Lat when he's on vacation. If we were only so lucky....

"...associates don't get out of the office much, so when the new summers arrive, it's like the buffet at Denny's."

lol. It's so true.

I love the part about trying to bang the Summers. Quality. anybody have any good stories about this?

what is the logic of posting the OMG FIRST!!!1 comment? Especially when you do it anonymously. FUCK OFF.

Love it. Great article/post. And all of it true.

WFT's up with Lat's sudden vacation, anyway? First Stella mysteriously disappears, then Lat, without so much as a goodbye? What are you up to. Merck?

Since when does Denny's have a buffet?

I've gone down on three of our summers so far.

sara is the coolest. anybody out there who can best that?

"sara is the coolest. anybody out there who can best that?"

I've gone down on three of our summers so far . . .while at work.

Good point. Shoney's has a buffet. Denny's has no buffet and refuses to serve food to minorities.

I refuse to believe that either Sara or Brooke is anything more than the figment of some desperate male associate's imagination.

ok, then you can't have any.

Hmm, no easy lunch and anti-diversity?

Denny's to 190!!!

I've gone down on 2 summers today. What?

Stop praising Merck for this "witty" post. It is so boring and pedestrian.

Yes, sex-deprived associates like to prey on gullible summers.

BIG FUCKING SURPRISE.

FUCK!

FUCK!

FUCK!

FUCKING FUCK!

I dunno. In my place the summers are usually too busy banging each other to let anyone else get a word in edgewise.

I am not a fan of Billy Merck

"what is the logic of posting the OMG FIRST!!!1 comment? Especially when you do it anonymously. FUCK OFF."

Uh-oh. Looks like someone's jealous that he or she was not the first poster. Don't worry, maybe next time.

The quality of attractiveness of the summers seems to be about on par with the buffet at Denny's. There's a few good things on the buffet, but most of them not so much.

The guys who hook up with summers are usually either inept in the bar scene so they can't get any elsewhere, or they are married.

Did ATL ever post about the USC summer associate, I think at Paul Hastings LA, last summer who threatened to stab a senior associate at an event with some drinking. His belongings were in a box the following day.

At a certain firm with its HQ in Virginia (and in spite of strict instructions to associates from on high asking them to please refrain from viewing the summers as a dating pool) there is LOTS of associate-summer canoodling going on as we speak. I write as a male summer who's been in the unfortunate position of watching married associates buying shots for the cute little female summers until 1am and hogging all the attention. Why is it that the female associates don't come out to give me a little love? I'm cute and willing to cross the line, too, dammit.

"what is the logic of posting the OMG FIRST!!!1 comment? Especially when you do it anonymously. FUCK OFF."

Yeah, but it's pretty funny when he posts "FIRST" but is actually second (or third, or . . . .).

Is anyone else surprised that Aquagirl has a federal appellate clerkship? I would ordinarily have thought that her lack of discretion would have made her an unseemly and potentially risky choice. Perhaps this one didn't know, was the forgiving type, or she really has turned a new leaf.

"what we do at ATL every day."

There hasn't been a decent post about summer associate shenanigans (OHHHHH!!!!!!!!, he said it!) for far too long...

Is it not a huge taboo to "fraternize" with a summer when you are an associate? I was under the impression it can get you fired, which has not stopped one of the single attorneys from laying down his "pimp game" (his words). everyone in my summer class is married or in a LTR anyway, though--which sucks.

4:12 - It was the same way with my summer class at first. All married or in long-term relationships. By mid-summer, though, at least half the relationships were over, and at least one marriage was on the rocks. God bless unlimited alcohol and a summer camp atmosphere.

All "aquagirl" did was jump in the river to go swimming. Luckily, most federal judges have a better sense of proportion and humor than do the nitwit rumor-mongering law students and bloggers.

What is the highest number of different attorneys one SA has hooked up with in one summer? I know of several summers at my firm who hooked up with 2 different associates, and I've heard of one at another firm hooking up with 3. Do I hear 4, anyone?

"All 'aquagirl' did was jump in the river to go swimming."

Um, it's a big disingenous to pretend that this was a mere "swim in the nearby river in a swimsuit" outing. She stripped in public and in front of her work colleagues to her bra + panties, jumped off a pier into the Hudson, and had to be rescued by the Coast Guard (who I suspect usually have better things to do with their time and taxpayers' dollars).

Man, what do they expect if they hire a bunch of hot ass to work here all summer. What am I supposed to do? Just let that walk around the office and ignore it. Damn straight I'm gonna hit it. This law degree has to be worth something at some point.

assholes are so condescending about dennys they don't know there isn't a buffet