patton boggs needs to go back to the old name - patton boggs & blow. such a better name.

i guess she didn't make partner

lol; here's to all the underappreciated Law-librarians out there! Here's to your bright new future as a junkie in the DC projects. *Cheers*

really? you think the law library didn't make partner?

Here's what I dont get: so you send your rude departure email. You are presumably still at the office. At a sweatshop like PB, you'd have to walk past at least 10 co-workers you just sent the email to on your way out. Ackward, anyone?

wouldn't a terse "F**k you all, I'm outta here!" have sufficed?

And you thought associates led lives of quiet desperation...

Ackward? Hmm. Perhaps awkward, but it seems like this person just didn't care anymore.

1:45...if someone has the stones to write such an email, they should have the stones to say it to the recipients in person, let alone simply walking past them out of the office.

This is awesome.

1:43: get a clue -- and a proofreader.

1:43(1):

Actually there are quite a few Big Law firm librarians earning above $200,000/year. I doubt the person will retire into poverty.

http://www.law.com/jsp/llf/PubArticleLLF.jsp?id=1186563724387

Plus, quite a few law librarians I know ended up transitioned into children's librarianship. As the skills required are very transferable between two population.

Glad to see the librarian at Patton Boggs is so literate.

Hey Prabs, did you go to episcopal in va?

Hey Prabs, did you go to episcopal in va?

Hey Prabs, did you go to episcopal in va?

Is this a suicide note?

No, I didn't

No, I didn't

No, I didn't

there are a lot of whores in DC.

Seems to me like there must be some back story here. Clearly, the second paragraph of the letter is a reference to something that perhaps precipitated the departure. Maybe Lat or a reader can shed some light?

why do you assume that the employee was female?

Well, perhaps the person was having a bad day, but the Law Librarian world is even smaller than the legal. What a way to burn your bridges.

I Can't Believe A Law Librarian Can't Make Partner!!!

assuming she was female, would she have made it into the law librarian hotties list?

There is a homless shelter between Georgetown University Law Center and the U.S. Tax Court - maybe we can find the librarian there in a few days.

"Farewell to everyone as I doubt we'll meet again in this life or the next."

This is merely a reference to the fact that people and bookworms go to different places when they expire.

Everyone assumes the writer is a woman because it's a librarian . . .

In my experience, there are more male law librarians than women . . .

In my expereince, there are more male than female law librarians . . .

2:47 -- get it straight, it's a soup kitchen

I bet this email secured his/her place amongst the legendary law librarians. That must be a lonely existance.

or a lonely existence . . .

3:08, i'm sorry for the existence you appear to have led. i assure you, there are more women in this world than male law librarians.

1:59- maybe YOU should get a clue. the law library at my firm did in fact make partner, and has a huge office with a great view. unfortunately, the library does not get to leave that office very often, and bringing it on a SA lunch requires a significant amount of planning, as well as a half-dozen Teamsters.

It's worth mentioning that the guy was a loon and not the head librarian by a long shot.

Who actually needs the services of a law librarian any more? I know where the books I use regularly usually are kept. Most law librarians are weirdos anyway.

I dealt with some junior law girl out of PB DC who was quit possibly the most ill mannered attorney and person I've ever dealt with. I'd post her name here but that would be rude. Ruder than she. Think she's a first or second year over there. Having said that, I've dealt with PB-ers in Texas who were pleasant as pie to work with. No I am not from nor do I work in Texas or D.C.

Great story, 4:04. Maybe they were mean because you're a moron.

4:16-- Didn't say they were "mean", tool. said "ill-mannered". huge difference, one you clearly cannot comprehend. Back to your cubicle, nothing.

Zzzzz. Yet another mildly non-generic goodbye letter. Yet more proof that this site sorely lacks interesting material. What happened to the glory days of Shanetta Cutlar?

My prediction of Lat's next 6 posts:

X-Summers "Drinkin Dude" Here's a tale of a summer associate who drank too much at an SA event and dropped the F-Bomb several times! Where is he now? He got an offer!

Nationwide Pay Raise: Finkle, Schminkle, and Pinkle of South Broward County Florida Raise to 92K!

Legal Eagle Wedding Watch: McBoringson/Clerkguy vs. Genericassociate/Yalegrad. Who will win? Who will care?

Skaddenfreude: Biglaw perks: Which Firms offer Friday Happy Hour?

Farewell Email: A big FU MOFO! Wherein someone's goodbye email contains such inflammatory and career-destroying words as "see ya suckers!"

X-Summers: Cereal Killa. Rumor has it that one biglaw firm in NY has a summer who keeps a box of Lucky Charms on his desk...ALL DAY...with his door open! We are shocked! Shocked!

Special Report: Associates falling asleep on the job because supposedly "entertaining" legal site so damn boring!

It's pretty obvious from that email that the employee will not be missed. It's almost certain that he did not leave on his own terms.

4:35 pm -- good post; very true.

I will miss her- she used to let me fondle her between the stacks when I needed a break during all nighter sessions.

L2L - job opening for you.....

4:35, 5:00: And yet you are both still here.

4:35, you're funny (unlike Let the Eagle Soar). Why not start your own blog?

Apparently 3:18 am believes that if you frequent someplace, you shouldn't critique or mock it. Under that theory, I guess we should all move to Mexico?

4:35 -

Finkle, Schminkle, and Pinkle raised, but they didn't fix the compression

I think 3:18's point is that if you don't find a source interesting or entertaining, then you shouldn't waste your time reading it.

Making specific criticisms about specific posts is one thing. But if you make a blanket criticism of a blog as boring and uninformative, then it's a waste of time to visit.

To take your Mexico analogy: if you disagree with specific aspects of U.S. government policy, that's fine. But if you have fundamental disagreements with your country's government, then yes, you should consider moving (to Mexico, or Canada, or wherever).

(Also, 3:18 is right. I've been reading your comments for a while now, and you're not nearly as funny or clever as you think you are, Let the Eagle Soar.)

Agreed, blanket criticism adds no value. Also adding no value are comments that if you don't like something then you shouldn't read the site. But 3:18's comment, although broad, was not a blanket criticism. In its own way, it was constructive.

And that you actually saw the need to give a serious, reasoned analysis of the "Mexico analogy" tells me you take yourself way too seriously.

As for me -- I haven't been going for clever or funny here. I basically focus on being right. Which, invariably, I am. And apparently that ticks off a few people who go by the moniker "Anonymous."

@3:45 - Great post! ROTFLOL at the thought of firm packing up a law library to take it on a summer associate lunch. Nice use of the word "Teamsters" too - it is funny for reasons I can't explain. Clever and funny.

@2:14pm - agreed, use of the moniker "Anonymous" is so cowardly. Its so much more principled to use your real name, especially if your name happens to be Let the Eagle Soar. You may not have been "going for clever or funny," but congrats - you made it anyway!

lawer, I did go to ehs. (2:29 post not by me). Wondered when I might see another ehs-er on this board. Figured w/ all the sarcasm and bitterness, there must be one.