what's inappropriate about bringing a MILF mag into the mens' room?

If things don't work out at Morgan Finnegan, maybe Jeremy "S.Pitcock" could join Harness, Dickey and Pierce.

What happened to Mr. Pitcock?

Anyone in the cockpit with info?

Fired for conduct in December 2007?

Since when is diddling a paralegal at the holiday office party considered "extremely inappropriate personal conduct"? I though that being able to do the freak-nasty with people at the office party was one of the many perks of being the head of a division.

Nothing inapprorpiate here.

may be he pulled a costanza: "I had sex with your wife!"

Interesting...can't wait to hear what homeskillet did.

Something tells me it was likely in line with his oft-reprised role as misogynist: e.g. as a student at MIT, he was part of a group of 'counter-protestors' who attended a rally against sexual harassment and stood at the back of the assembly holding up a placard reading "She Wanted It".

Source: http://www.mit.edu/activities/safe/cases/mit-erulkarbitran/protest-rally

Must be fun having that as the first hit when you google your own name.

At least he's consistent, if it was sexual that is.

"Jeremy S. Pitcock '94, another counterprotester, said that the reason
he got involved in demonstrating at the rally was due to the postering
of Bitran's class on Nov. 16, when a group of students filed into the
back of his classroom holding signs. "I'm for treating sexual
harassment as a real problem, but I think Bitran shouldn't be
harassed. The postering of Bitran's class was completely out of line.
It was a personal affront against him," Pitcock said."

The whole story here.
http://www.mit.edu/activities/safe/cases/mit-erulkarbitran/protest-rally

1:40 post of the day - A+

What did he do? I knew Pitcock as we worked together at a previous shop, and he was a good guy.

I am curious what happened here.

I knew him from STB, brilliant patent litigator, shoo-in for pship at STB, but they asked him to wait another year, so he bolted for Kasowitz, who made a lucrative offer. Prior to that, he bragged about always having equity offers starting in his 6th year as an STB associate.

He was always abrasive, and on his second marriage I believe, but never knew him to be the guy who would do anything inappropriate.

We need those details, please!

sounds like sour grapes at Kasowitz. They better watch out for a defamation suit.

ah yes, "nab" and "jump ship" are fighting words if I've ever heard any.

perhaps the "extremely inappropriate" conduct was leaving the firm.

Based on that daguerreotype, it appears the misconduct did not involve a moustache ride.

Wow, sounds like he was a dick at MIT. Ten bucks says he doesn't think he did anything wrong. Who the hell holds a "don't flatter yourself" sign at a sexual harassment rally?

[Who the hell holds a "don't flatter yourself" sign at a sexual harassment rally?]

Someone who goes to a school where most of one's classmates are men, and the few women who show up are set upon by packs of roving nerds.

I think there was a saying at Wellesley that, when it comes to MIT, "the odds are good, but the goods are odd."

To 3:20 -- approx 45% of MIT undergrads are female. This is more than "a few women."

We also had our own sayings about the Wellesley girls, none of which are clean enough to reproduce here...

"Don't flatter yourself"? Juvenile, in the AA bake sale way, but funny, (in the same way as well).

3:20, I think you're confusing MIT with Cal Tech, where women are indeed set upon by packs of roving nerds (often on unicycles).

Probably invoked the Costanza defense utilized when it was discovered he was knockin-da-boots with the Panamanian cleaning lady while at his desk: "Was that wrong?" George replies after being told he's fired for the act. "Should I have not done that? I tell you. I gotta plead ignorance on this thing because if anyone had said anything to me at all when I first started here that that sort of thing was frowned upon ..."

does anyone know a patent attorney capable of appropriate conduct?

i dont, and im a patent attorney

2:50- People fed up with the angry, self-loathing feminazi agenda.

On Point- this guy seems like a dick, so he probably got what he deserved with this.

I need to quickly register a trademark for the phrase "extremely inappropriate personal conduct."

Another brilliant business decision by M&F.

Move along. Nothing to see here.

LOL@"People fed up with the angry, self-loathing feminazi agenda."

Oh my god, you actually said "FEMINAZI"! You used a "word" coined by Rush Limbaugh in semi-serious conversation! Bwahahaha!

We should shorten the line to read "Extremely I.P. Conduct"

ATL comments are not a semi-serious conversation.

Also, semi-serious conversations usually don't include "LOL" or "Bwahahaha!"

HTH

Kasowitz has had little success in building an IP practice. Anyone remember when Salem Katsh came over from Shearman? I hear that Katsh was shooed out for inappropriate conduct as well. Inside information on that would be appreciated as well...

I wonder what the real name was before they changed it.

Does use of "feminazi" count towards Godwin's law? If so, I call the first DING DING DING DING!!!

DETAILS DETAILS DETAILS

Dorky MIT Patent Litigator + Trying to Build a Practice = Long Hours and pros in a conference room.

Bottom line, don't set the "spin" machine to high when you get canned from Kasowitz, because they will toss you to the wolves.

And another angle - who was asleep at the switch for this NOT to have come out when he was searching around for a new job? Shouldn't someone have gotten just a little suspicious when this apparently highly-recruited nerd-all-star ran from the group he was supposed to be founding? Within what, 2 years? Anyone?

excellent point 10:21, but not as good as 4:30 :)

Re 10:21

It must have been more than that.

MIT's gender ratio has changed dramatically in the last 15 years. In the mid-nineties it was 70-30, and by the late nineties it was 60-40. However it always been true that everyone there is equal. The men are men, and the women are men too.

What's the deal with Kasowitz anyway? What is their reputation?

They're a profitable litigation shop. They value prestige and most of their lawyers are highly credentialed.

Dan Weiser would disapprove...

I don't know about prestige, but I've heard about their litigation and bankruptcy groups being total a-holes. Two good friends have dealt with them (separately), and both had stories that would make your head spin - denying typical "professional courtesy" requests, discovery disputes on every issue, etc. I also heard they use their in house PI firm to search through your client's garbage (I think I read that one in an online story somewhere). I googled them, and there are some good stories about them getting smacked around severely in the DNJ for some really, really, really shady practices - something involving the use of a document filed under seal in one action to start another action. I also remember a posting (perhaps on this fine blog?) talking about how Mr. Kasowitz himself unceremoniously threw a low-level associate under the bus for that little "mistake" during his testimony before the DJ (i.e., "it's not my fault, that stupid associate didn't tell me that document was filed under seal and I wasn't allowed to use it to file my lawsuit.") That's just classy, and paints a picture that is pretty consistent with their little press-release about Mr. Pitcock. I need to know what he did or else I'm going to start feeling bad for him.

I don't feel bad for that Pitcock guy. I hear that he was a huge jerk even before he got to Kasowitz.

"Kasowitz Benson"??

Never heard of em. What tier firm are they? Certainly lower, yes? What kind of bonii do they pay?

14thyearslave

I think they have the highest profit per partner stat right now - $1.5 million.

There's a "rumor" that Benson was sloshed when he issued the press release and they're now quaking in their boots at Kasowitz. Seems like there are a lot of potential causes of action here. Maybe Benson will be the next partner to be fired for "extemely inappropriate personal conduct." Maybe Pitcock can refer Benson to his lawyer.

I just heard Jeremy was fired from Morgan & Finnegan two days ago - he no longer appears on their website.

Not surprised. He was inappropriate with a friend at STB.