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Meet Your New Associate Editor: Kashmir Hill

Kashmir Hill Kash Hill hot hottie Associate Editor Above the Law blog.jpgSome of you have already noticed this on Above the Law’s snazzy new site credits page. But for those of you haven’t, we bring you news of a promotion. Say hello to ATL’s terrifically talented new associate editor, Kashmir Hill!

Kash has been a frequent guest contributor to these pages for several weeks now. Her witty and well-written work has been praised by many of you (and you’re a tough crowd). So we are delighted to bring her on as a permanent addition to the crew.

(Also, she promised us a photo with more skin in exchange for a promotion — and delivered. See photo at right.)

Please join me in welcoming Kashmir Hill as ATL’s new associate editor. Kash, we’re thrilled to have you!

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1 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:04 AM

Lat sounds a little bitter that we were too tough on SEN. It's not our fault SEN couldn't write (and she's the one that claimed she was a great writer). Good choice Lat on hiring someone that can write so you can work part time and make the same money, it's like you're a partner in a law firm.

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2 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:04 AM

First, and she is cute!

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3 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:05 AM

Damn, someone tell that girl to lay off the distance running.

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4 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:05 AM

Showing off the pythons?

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5 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:05 AM

Congrats Kash!

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6 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:07 AM

Somewhere Billy Merck is crying all alone.

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7 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:09 AM

hey kash, whatever happened to that cadwalader shuffle you posted about?

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8 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:10 AM

Sweet! No SEN! I judge you when you're a poor writer.

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9 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:13 AM

She's gross.

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10 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:14 AM

SEN was fine. There are just a lot of tools trolling this site.

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11 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:16 AM

lol@witty and well-written work

cmon lat...you are losing all your credibility here. and yes she is cute...for a bunch of dorky, fatass, overworked biglaw attorneys that do not see the light of day

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12 Posted by Highlander | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:18 AM

Congratulations, Kashmir.

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13 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:18 AM

hoo-ray wall carpet!

let me guess, she's Kazakh!

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14 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:19 AM

Well at least this latest pic should end all the pathetic e-flirting. Or am I overestimating biglaw standards yet again?

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15 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:19 AM

I'd hit it.

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16 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:20 AM

Do you think Lateral Link will throw in a date with Ms. Hill if I switch firms?

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17 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:20 AM

Tim Gunn:

She went to Duke and therefore any semblance of attractiveness is null and void. However, her picture makes her look mildly attractive. I give her a soft 5.

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/5/4B2/A95

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18 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:22 AM

Her first pic was better. She looks pretty homely in this one.

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19 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:25 AM

she's actually hotter than that pic suggests:
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=146510554

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20 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:25 AM

to paraphrase Peter Rosenberg, why do all duke girls look like soccer moms in their 20s

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21 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:25 AM

Kash,

How about a series of posts on what DC bars you frequent? You know, a weekly "Bar Review" of your city. I am sure most of the attorneys (and law students) on this blog would love to know where girls like you hang out.

-Lonely in DC

22 Posted by Michael Clayton | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:27 AM

That photo is itching for one of the infamous caption contests....

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23 Posted by Kind of A Big Deal | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:28 AM

That picture does not do her justice. In real life she is actually pretty hot.

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24 Posted by Kind of A Big Deal | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:29 AM

That picture does not do her justice. In real life she is actually pretty hot.

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25 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:33 AM

Busted.

26 Posted by Ol Dirty 3L | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:39 AM

I'm an average man. A G-O-D fan.

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27 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:44 AM

Kash - you're a total cutie!

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28 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:44 AM

I don't have low standards but I'd definitely hit it.

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29 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:46 AM

cutie

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30 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:53 AM

I CAME!

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31 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:57 AM

Soccer moms are hot -- soccer moms in their 20's are even hotter (assuming they dont actually have kids yet).

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32 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:57 AM

I'm in her extended network!

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33 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:58 AM

too skinny.
Bring back SEN.

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34 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:59 AM

WGWAG !

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35 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:00 PM

SEN was hell on earth. Kash at least has decent posts, even if she is a dookie.

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36 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:15 PM

It's just sad what passes for hot on these pages. Where did you all go to undergrad, Michigan?

37 Posted by Grover Cleveland | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:21 PM

She can ride my mustache any day.

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38 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:22 PM

LAT -- Please hold a win a date with Kash contest. PLEASE.

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39 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:22 PM

She's much cuter and ten times the writer that SEN was....good move, Lat! Congrats Kash!

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40 Posted by Justin Timberlake | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:25 PM

JT still thinks Kash is fine like a mother fuck.

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41 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:28 PM

12:15,

Even after going to UVA, land of southern women in skimpy sundresses right around this wonderful time of of year, I'd call Kash cute. Not smokin' hot, not a 9 or a 10, but pretty damn cute.

Ease up on the girl.

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42 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:28 PM

Maybe she's cute for DC. I don't know. The people down there are pretty gross for the most part. But don't most commenters work in NYC?

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43 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:29 PM

Is Michigan really that bad in terms of the female crop? Just curious.

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44 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:37 PM

Is that a "redacted" beer bottle or a "self-help device" that brought a smile to her face and caused her to almost lose her balance?

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45 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:41 PM

UVA definitely has some cute chicks but not that much diversity. The best campuses for hot chicks that I've ever been to are Texas and UCLA, hands down. White, latin, Asian, etc.

Michigan is bad, but Ohio State is absolutely the worst.

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46 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:42 PM

Dude, anyone who thinks she's not cute needs their head checked. She's very cute. I seriously doubt that any straight male on this board would decline a date with her, married and engaged excluded.

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47 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:51 PM

Actually, most commenters work in the District. We have more time than NYC'ers do.

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48 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:52 PM

Tell that girl to eat something...can't hit what you can't see.

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49 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:52 PM

Correction to 12:42

Married and engaged include. Isn't that what DC is about?

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50 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:56 PM

What do people have a hunchback fetish here?
She has the posture of my 90 year old grandmother.

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51 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:58 PM

"UVA definitely has some cute chicks but not that much diversity"

Sorry to be unPC, but "diversity" does not equate to hot.

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52 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:59 PM

Congrats, Kash! I'm looking forward to reading more of your writing. Perhaps your next post could an open post for employment lawyers to analyze the legal implications of making a job offer contingent upon a woman showing one's skin!

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53 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:04 PM

I didn't say that diversity equated to hot. My point was that there is little diversity *among* the hot chicks at UVA. In other words, they're all white and preppy. Which is cool, I guess. But I prefer a wider variety of hot chicks on my campus, both in terms of race and style.

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54 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:04 PM

12:58 - you've obviously never been to California.

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55 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:05 PM

look. shes not ugly, but shes homely. i definitely wouldnt date her.

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56 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:07 PM

Really named after the song? I just listened to it again; weird lyrics and ominous melody. Interesting choice....

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57 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:09 PM

1:04 - excellent point. As a Wahoo, I always thought the place was a bit monochrome.

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58 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:17 PM

boobies on kash not big enough for my tastes

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59 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:29 PM

Kash is cute. She also has that 'I am a dirty little girl in the sack' look about her. But not hot.

However, to end the debate on hot women. The southeast is the center of the world when it comes to hot women. (California pretends...like the women's tits in Cali). If you are debating the hottest women on campus, 9 of the top 10 would be in the southeast.

In response the the inevitable spastic responses by the northerners who don't know any better, my response is....you don't know any better. Auburn, Georgia, Florida State, South Carolina, hell even Ole Miss would put any northern school and all but UCLA out west to shame.

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60 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:30 PM

Lat needs to step back a bit. He's ignored all the criticism of the site redesign, he's increased the amount of marketing, and now he's appointed some chick he wants to sleep with to associate editor. The site is losing its credibility. Once that's gone, so long readership and ad money.

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61 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:32 PM

her high school name reminds me of this far side cartoon.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/goldberg/229551714/

62 Posted by WGWAG | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:34 PM

I endorse this post.

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63 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:35 PM

seriously? we're going to deconstruct Kash's appearance now and talk about whether she's a 9 or 10, how skinny she is, and how big her boobies are? When do we get to deconstruct Lat's appearance? I bet he's a white, flabby guy with a ever-expanding bald spot and a nicely-developing beer gut.

Just like the rest of the shallow losers that post here.

Kash, ridiculous criticisms and judgments aside, you're a talented writer. Best of luck to you.

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64 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:35 PM

Congrats Kash!

I hope you have thick skin, considering the onslaught of judgment from the assholes who read abovethelaw....

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65 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:41 PM

1:35 and 1:30 - you must be new here. Lat is gay and his picture is all over this website.

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66 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:49 PM

False assumption. 1:41
I'm probably older than you are.

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67 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 1:59 PM

1:49 - OK... my "assumption" had nothing to do with your age, but with how long you have been visiting the site. I think it is safe to assume, no matter your age, that your reading comp skills are lacking.

Also, you either attempted to describe Lat despite the hundreds of pictures of him on this site, or claimed Lat wanted to sleep with Kash. Lat is openly gay. Nothing I have said is false.

68 Posted by Michel Houellebecq | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 2:06 PM

She's no Bess Levin.

Take note: Even an Ivy transfer is better than a Dukie.

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69 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 2:12 PM

Her MySpace page caption states: "Named for the Zeppelin song, NOT the sweater."

Someone needs to inform the fruitcake that there is also a region in India called Kashmir and that the sweater and the song are both named after that.

I dont think she is very sharp. No wonder Lat picked her.

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70 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 2:14 PM

1:29:

You may be right, but for us northern boys, we like a gal who looks good and scores above the sub-moron level on the IQ test, you feel me?

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71 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 2:18 PM

2:12, you are the moron. Clearly, her folks named her after the Zeppelin song (guess they were banging to the heavy, forceful beat), but people assume when she says her name that she means the material out of which soft, nice sweaters are made. Kash might know well that there is a region in India called Kashmir, but most folks who would hear her name might not. And for all you know, she's been there, nitwit.

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72 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 2:30 PM

Grow up. All of you.

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73 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 2:44 PM

Kash has DSL (at least on the bottom lip)

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74 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 2:44 PM

beer bottle? i assumed it was a dildo redaction. thanks for ruining it.

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75 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 2:52 PM

I bet Kash is much fun after a few cocktails.

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76 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 3:22 PM

what's wrong with all you people. she's quite pretty. and probably smarter than most of us. she did, after all, manage to avoid going to law school. perhaps this explains why she seems to have a mischievous glint in her eye rather than the dejected, broken look you're seeing reflected in your monitor.

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77 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 3:37 PM

NY to no-reflection monitors.

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78 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 3:41 PM

3:37 to Associate Editor of ATL!!

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79 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 3:46 PM

http://profile.ak.facebook.com/v227/1069/14/s636825596_3050.jpg

This picture is her facebook profile picture.

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80 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:00 PM

3:46 - that's a miller high life if i've ever seen one. ROCK ON Kash!

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81 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:30 PM

Kash is king!

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82 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:30 PM

Almost certainly takes it in the duece.

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83 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:33 PM

She redacted her anal beads?

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84 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:47 PM

3:37 and 4:30 - I would like to thank you both for finally making me laugh today. Sure I am 12 years old, but I laughed out loud.

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85 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 4:54 PM

2:14:

I would just reiterate my comment in the post, you obviously just don't know any better. Women in the south are plenty smart. Spare me the stuff about educated women, your wife isn't going to read this.

1:29

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86 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 5:10 PM

Is there anything bleaker than lonely, pallid lawyers hunched over flickering computer screens in cluttered offices, confessing their attraction to a law blog contributor via anonymous posts on the internet?

I hate to break it to you, fellas, but you aren't getting laid, no matter how many times you invoke the word "cutie." You might want to, ya' know, talk to a live girl...in person...using your real name.

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87 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 5:16 PM

5:10, that's what out of office time is for. At the moment, we're stuck here.

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88 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 5:25 PM

5:16 is technically correct. However, he failed to note that using one's real name is a poor way of avoiding child support.

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89 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 5:38 PM

LCD computer screens do not flicker.

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90 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 6:05 PM

She's cute!

She'll score big points if she can convince the powers that be to go back to the old web layout.

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91 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 6:26 PM

hot

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92 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 6:26 PM

Tits or GTFO

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93 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 6:34 PM

Hey, Kash, you're such a cutie.

Let's go on a date. Here's the itinerary:

I'll show up late. Potentially very late. If I show up at all. But I'll be driving a silver Beamer. So you'll deal with it. In fact, I'll convince myself that my tardiness is a form of rakish charm.

During the drive to the restaurant, I'll obsessively check my Blackberry and casually mumble words or phrases like "client," "Fortune 50," "witness," "Goldman Sachs," underwriting," and "bonus," thereby subtly conveying my importance.

Later, though you don't ask, I'll explain with grueling precision how I custom designed my BMW. As you admire my refined aesthetic, I will remind you that the car costs more than your annual salary.

At the restaurant, I will order carpaccio, tartare, sushi, or some other form of raw meat or fish. This demonstrates both my sophisticated palate and a slight but overwhelmingly erotic disregard for my own health. I am a rebel. As I eat each course, I will describe in detail how I have consumed better versions of the same dishes at other, trendier restaurants with other, more gentrified women.

After the main course, I will summarize a brief but pivotal conversation I had with Lawrence Tribe at a urinal. You will be baffled. I will generously forgive your plebian folly.

I will excuse myself to call a "client" on my cell phone, reminding you that the law is a "service industry" and prompt responses are required. Secretly, I hope that the use of the word "service" will subconciously prompt images of fellatio. I learned this trick while reading a biography of Gerry Spence.

In the bathroom, my "client" is actually a senior paralegal. She screams at me for failing to properly use my online coding sheet.

To bolster my confidence, I will regale you with the best admissions from my recent custodian of records deposition, which I second chaired. The climax of the tale is a riveting exchange about the location of cost accounting data.

In the car on the way home, I will grope your leg awkwardly during a long discourse on the perils of the living constitution, as explained to me by Nino himself during my tumultuous but idyllic SCOTUS clerkship. When this gambit inevitably fails to result in arousal, I will become defensive and explain to you that I am stressed because my bonus was "only" $134K. This puts you in your place.

I will drop you off and return to the redoubt of my office. There, I will call a fellow associate and lie about our date. Inter alia, I will claim that we attended an orgy at an undeground club called "Le Cirque."

So, how about it?

Sincerely,

Big Law Associate 3121958


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94 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 6:42 PM

that picture was chosen for the skinny-arm display. i know. i've done it.

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95 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 6:44 PM

She looks like a muppet bird.

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96 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 7:20 PM

A muppet bird I'd like to get a know a little better.

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97 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 9:59 PM

6:34 went under appreciated.

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98 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 10:38 PM

6:34 is pure gold, and must be enshrined somewhere. Preferably, it should be required, in 14 pt. font, on the front of the following: the LSAT, all law school admission applications, all Bar applications, and any promotional materials sent by a law firm to a law student or law school.

However, Kash still looks like a neat woman.

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99 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:01 PM

agreed. 6:34 must be enshrined (preferrably here on ATL). Hilarious (because its true).

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100 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:21 PM

OMG 6:34. You hot sexy biglaw associate you! rrrrrrrrrr

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101 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:22 PM

6:34 - you made my night. Brilliant.

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102 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:27 PM

Kash's photo here doesn't fulfill the earlier promise of her black and white headshot.

Bring back SEN. She is better looking.

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103 Posted by guest | Permalink Wednesday, April 16, 2008 11:48 PM

Kash's headshot is unabashedly adorable.

So I guess we need more full body shots of SEN.

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104 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:33 AM

I would bang her provided she wore a paper bag on her head.

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105 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:40 AM

She's hot. And a good writer. Now shut up all of you and masturbate or bill time or whatever it is you do.

106 Posted by Pacific Reporter | Permalink Thursday, April 17, 2008 9:27 AM

she's a hottie

107 Posted by B612 | Permalink Thursday, April 17, 2008 10:28 AM

why would she ever put up such an awkward picture

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108 Posted by Justin Timberlake | Permalink Thursday, April 17, 2008 11:28 AM

6:34,

Unbelivable. Kudos.

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109 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:07 PM

Putting looks aside (though she is better looking than SEN) she can actually write witty, entertaining articles for ATL as opposed to being the height of hypocrisy and judging others for poor grammar while not being able to write a decently constructed sentence herself.

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110 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, April 17, 2008 1:07 PM

Putting looks aside (though she is better looking than SEN) she can actually write witty, entertaining articles for ATL as opposed to being the height of hypocrisy and judging others for poor grammar while not being able to write a decently constructed sentence herself.

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111 Posted by guest | Permalink Thursday, April 17, 2008 7:23 PM

I beg to differ 1:29. You clearly have never been to San Diego State in the spring.

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112 Posted by guest | Permalink Friday, April 18, 2008 9:06 PM

I tapped it...

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113 Posted by guest | Permalink Tuesday, April 22, 2008 4:44 PM

... and?

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