Lawyer of the Day: Adam Kutner
We might have made this Las Vegas personal injury attorney, Adam S. Kutner, our Lawyer of the Day for his nifty website alone. His initials, A.S.K., provide the site’s dominating logo, and when you surf in, Kutner turns to look at you.
Via this Nevada legal blog, Wild Wild Law, we came across this article in Las Vegas City Life, which portrays Kutner as the worst boss ever. Wild Wild Law has compiled a list of the alleged abuses from the story. Some highlights:
menacing secretaries with a golf club; calling support staff “Fat b**ches,” “F***ing dumb-asses,” “C**ts,” and “Morons”; saying Hispanics were lazy and stupid to his mostly Hispanic staff; bragging about his sexual conquests to support staff; getting in screaming fits when he doesn’t get the right type of water on his desk (Fiji); having employees occasionally shave his neck; punching a hole in the drywall with a door knob in a fit of anger.
That’s a scrubbed and abridged version. Read the complete list over here.
Sounds like the man has some anger management issues. Lots of discrimination complaints, law suits, and counter suits are in the works.
What happens in Vegas doesn’t always stay in Vegas.
Personal injuries [Las Vegas City Life via Wild Wild Law]
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I can't excuse the rest of it, but what did they expect would happen if they gave him non-Fiji water?
I imagine the sixth thing was meant to help with the fourth thing.
On the plus side at least he didn't write an idiotic article for the Harvard Law Review.
Also, has he killed any babies in third world countries? I need to know this before I can judge him.
His eye does that Terminator II thing when he turns. Freaky.
Penn Sucks.
Whoever shaved his neck really dropped the ball by not pressing in harder.
Everthing else seemed preatty normal (in an asshole kind of way) but abusive until the neck shaving thing.
Requiring support staff to wax or shave parts of the empolyer's body is creepy in the extreme.
In short, he is perfectly qualified to take over Halverson's judicial seat should the Nevada Judicial Comish create a vacancy soon.
I may be able to relate to someone like Adam, and I see the same in my father (as well as a family-friend father/son). A short flare in a high stress environment can be even the best practicioner's downfall (and probably the reason he's solo). I did, and my treatment has helped me build lasting friendships (something I lacked before), cut annoying tendencies (e.g., tapping my foot loudly in a repetitive manner), and randomly blurting out anger-laced racial slurs under my breath (which, in rare instances where I was heard, made me feel extremely remorseful for harming coworkers I cared about). As for having someone shave the neck: gross!
I may be able to relate to someone like Adam, and I see the same in my father (as well as a family-friend father/son). A short flare in a high stress environment can be even the best practicioner's downfall (and probably the reason he's solo). I did, and my treatment has helped me build lasting friendships (something I lacked before), cut annoying tendencies (e.g., tapping my foot loudly in a repetitive manner), and randomly blurting out anger-laced racial slurs under my breath (which, in rare instances where I was heard, made me feel extremely remorseful for harming coworkers I cared about). As for having someone shave the neck: gross!
What's the policy goal furthered by bleeping out words like cunt, fuck, and bitch with asterisks? It's stupid. Any offensiveness of the words inheres in the whole word and its meaning, not in the precise sequence of characters used to spell them. It's just... juvenile, like sixth graders who write a position paper on religion but insist on spelling it "G-d" for all three pages.
Actually, Fiji IS good water.
Followup to 12:08: forgot to say "I sought professional help."
He's nothing special. Just your garden-variety insecure, Napoleonic douche. Quite common in plaintiff's PI and the corner offices of Biglaw alike. Why does this clown merit lawyer of the day?
On the Wild West post, the author attributes this unqualified list of horrible misdeads to Kutner, then qualifies the throwing of a crumpled up $100 bill at a secretary with "[allegedly]"?
Like, maybe Kutner would sue the blog for blowing his reputation as a cheapskate, but not for claiming that he made his sectretary "watch him groom himself" or called secretaries the "C" word or called hispanics "lazy"?
"Why does this clown merit lawyer of the day?"
First, the Vegas pattern, and second, the neck shaving thing and the making the secretary watch the "grooming" thing.
Like most passive-agressive types, Kutner is a Democrat.
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=NV&last=kutner&first=adam
Leave Adam Kuntner alone...
-Chris Crocker
If I have a big meeting/interview and haven't had a haircut, I have my wife shave the back of my neck. My hair grows fast there. I can't help it.
I'm guessing this guy isn't married and doesn't have time to go to the barbershop. It's really hard to shave one's own neck.
Especially when one is a neanderthall.
You left out the best part Kash - he's a Miami Law School graduate. Where there's weirdness in the world, Florida is involved.
Please don't make fun of me, but - what does "shave his neck" mean? Dirty right? Very dirty? Should I close my office door now? Do I have to pay extra for it?
He's U of Miami law grad. Hmmmmmm. . . . . .
Does he have a recruiting page? Sounds like a cool guy.
12:08, some people write "G-d" because their religion (mine included) teaches it's disrespectful (and some believe a sin) to write out their deity's name on paper, even the English word. So that has nothing to do with your other point, which I tend to agree with.
12:46 - but doesn't G-d become the symbols we use for the name and therefore merit the same restriction?
The 'fat bitches" comment, while I do not condone it, may have been literally accurate. See this pic of one of the plaintiffs against Kutner:
http://www.lasvegascitylife.com/articles/2008/05/22/news/local_news/iq_216484751.img
The "Ask Adam" section is hilarious, because each answer says "contact our office at..."
His "Dogbite" page is so funny: http://www.askadamskutner.com/Las_Vegas-dog-bite-lawyer.asp
Even funnier is his slip and fall page; check out the picture: http://www.askadamskutner.com/Las_Vegas-slip-and-fall-lawyer.asp
Guys in my high school used to demand that the support staff shave their neck all the time. It was no big deal.
Not my style of practice, and I won't excuse his violations of law. But I've worked for people like that in the past & it can generate results (albeit through a mechanism I don't really like). And it seems he's paying staff upwards of $75k - plus bonuses. In Vegas, too.
Hazard pay indeed.
-- ET!
Wow. You have to be some kind of special to win "Biggest Douchebag" in VEGAS.
Was anyone else completely creeped out by the turning-to-look-at-you photo? Eesh.
Nice how his website lists the questions people "ask" him -- including their names and phone numbers. Hmmm, maybe that could be lawsuit ... and loved the potential lawsuit about the fiance getting ice water poured on her breasts at a Harrah's. Only top notch cases here ...
Nice how his website lists the questions people "ask" him -- including their names and phone numbers. Hmmm, maybe that could be lawsuit ... and loved the potential lawsuit about the fiance getting ice water poured on her breasts at a Harrah's. Only top notch cases here ...
David Lou says shave my neck, pretty pretty prease?
Laugh and ridicule him all you want, you snotty biglaw cogs. This man makes far more money than you'll ever see.
3:20 "Laugh and ridicule him all you want, you snotty biglaw cogs. This man makes far more money than you'll ever see."
Yeah - because if you have money, nothing else matters. You don't need to treat people with respect or common decency.
3:38,
AMEN. If you have money, you don't need to treat people with respect of common decency.
If you have money its ok if your balls pop out of your shorts while sitting at the conference table.
I like smallish perky boobs also.
The more money I make, the more parts of my body I am going to make support staff shave. In a couple of years, I will be a completely hairless monkey driving an Aston Martin.
This pretty much describes every crappy Nevada lawyer. What's the big surprise? Maybe they are not all ass----s in the exact same way, but they are pretty much all ass----s.
Dear 4:34 and 4:51
I love you.
Hilarious.
yeah, why does he get to be the lawyer of the day?
-Richard Dienst
Adam Kutner is a really nice guy. I have met him a few times. His girlfriend is really hot.
Adam Kutner is a really nice guy. I have met him a few times. His girlfriend is really hot.
Adam Kutner is a really nice guy. I have met him a few times. His girlfriend is really hot.