Worst Holiday Office Party Ever: Bingham Associate Given Date Rape Drug?
Michelle Moor was a first-year associate at Bingham McCutchen, and a successful one judging from this Bingham press release on a case victory. She left the firm in February for the much smaller (and lower-paying) Kotin, Crabtree Strong, after allegedly being drugged at Bingham’s holiday office party. She has filed a sex discrimination complaint against Bingham for not taking appropriate actions after she reported the incident.
From Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly:
The seven-page [Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination] complaint, which was sent to multiple newspapers yesterday evening, states that on Dec. 14, 2007, Moor attended the firm’s annual holiday party for associates at Lucia, a North End restaurant. Allegedly, after her second glass of wine, she felt “dazed and extremely disoriented.” At an emergency room that evening, the complaint says, a blood test revealed that she had ingested Tegretol, an anti-seizure medication that causes memory loss when taken with alcohol.After the incident, another Bingham associate allegedly told Moor that she had been drugged and raped by a Bingham employee the year before, but that she had not reported the incident to the firm.
On Dec. 20, according to the complaint, Moor reported both incidents to the firm’s human resources department and asked that the firm warn other female associates.
A month later, on Jan. 17, according to the complaint, Moor attended a dinner at a restaurant with fellow Bingham employees, one of whom, a litigation specialist who worked on the same floor as Moor, made “a number of alarming sexually inappropriate comments” about “roofies” and having sex with unconscious women. The employee’s comments allegedly indicated to Moor that he “may have been the person who drugged her and may have intended to rape her while she was unconscious.”
At what kind of firm dinner does an employee feel comfortable talking about taking advantage of passed-out women?
The story is getting considerable media attention. It also appeared in the Boston Globe and the WSJ Law Blog.
We contacted Bingham for comment. Their statement, plus links to collected coverage, below the fold.
BINGHAM MCCUTCHEN — FIRM STATEMENT
From Claire Papanastasiou, Bingham spokesperson:
We took Ms. Moor’s report extremely seriously and were disappointed that she had decided to resign from the firm. We are disappointed with this filing and we also believe there is no merit to the claims that have been made.Ordinarily we do not comment further in connection with on-going disputes. Here, because issues of personal safety are implicated, we comment further to address only that matter.
The filing speaks of the report received by the firm that Ms. Moor unknowingly ingested a drug at a holiday party sponsored by the firm in a public setting. The firm believes that at all times it acted diligently, responsibly and fairly in connection with information it received, including gathering relevant facts and conducting an appropriate and thorough investigation. The safety of our lawyers and staff is of paramount concern to our firm.
In connection with its investigation, the firm was unable to determine who had done this or whether the source of the drug was associated with the firm in any way. However, in response to the concerns raised by Ms. Moor, and in collaboration with a safety expert, we have developed and are providing personal-safety training to equip our people with practical, safety-related advice in their professional and personal lives. We believe that this training program is a productive step in addressing personal safety for us all.
The individual that Moor suspected of drugging her also left the firm in February. We wonder where he went. To the ladies working at wherever he landed, we suggest you keep an eye on your drinks.
Update: For a more detailed response from the firm, see this internal email.
Further Update (4/13/09): The MCAD has dismissed Moor’s complaint.
Ex-Bingham associate claims she was drugged at firm-sponsored party [Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly]
Ex-employee alleges she was drugged at firm’s party [Boston Globe]
Bingham Hit With Suit Over Alleged Holiday-Party Drugging [WSJ Law Blog]
Update: A reader sent us the screencap below, from the WSJ Law Blog, with this quip: “Hooray for random ‘contextual’ ad placement!”
In case you can’t read the text of the Bingham advertisement, it says: “The best attorneys know how to balance aggression with delicate handling.”





Comments
NUSL students were the FIRST to be outraged. No really.
delicate handling, ha!
http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2007/12/18/the-law-blog-ad-of-the-year-binghams-bear-baby/
pwnd
what's NUSL?
Great non-answer by Bingham.
Hey, Bingham female employees? We don't care about your safety. Some 5th year has a champion who is a partner with a book of business. This whole issue makes us icky. We don't want to send out an email saying 'watch your drinks' because it would end of on ATL. We don't want to comfront anyone because that could be tricky. Our workers are so beaten down they have less fear about going to the police than talking to us. Because the police not arresting a rapist is less saddening than the firm not firming the rapist and maybe firing the victim for making noise.
Did I mention our sleath layoffs? How about our stupid ads in the airport and magazines? IT'S A FUCKING BEAR WITH A BABY.
Bingham to TTT...oh wait, already there.
So it turns out that XOXO posters do get biglaw gigs.
1:14
youre retarded. this could happen anywhere at anytime. its not connected to bingham at all.
Sad. Yet another reason to not drink at work-related events.
yes, plenty of law firms ignore rapes by their employees of their employees conducted at firm social events.
No big deal. Nothing to see here.
i don't see how this is a Bingham problem (but maybe i'm missing some facts), as much as a "bar environment" problem.
1:14 is an idiot.
But given my interaction with the handlers in HR of summer associates, I could see how they might not be up to the task of dealing with this serious of an issue. And I could see partners not being much better sadly.
NUSL = Northeastern University School of Law. Synonymous in some circles with leftist outrage and tired liberal/Marxist rhetoric.
Bingham sucks. They wish they were Ropes/Goodwin/Wilmer or any of the other superior law firms in Boston. DLA is even better than Bingham
There's nothing funny about rape. Unless you're raping a clown!!!
@1:22. It's a Bingham problem because it was a reocurring incident. Two, at minimum, female attorneys drugged. One, at minimum, raped. A Bingham attorney talking about using roofies. And so bold as to brag in front of other Bingham people? That takes balls unless firm culture thinks that roofies and rape are jokes.
I'm not saying go to Bingham and you'll walk out of the gym shower feeling like Ed Norton in American History X. But to say this isn't a Bingham problem is willfully naive.
DLA rocks.
what with the tailoring of stories to FRAT STUD??? is he a sponsor of this blog now??
Guys at my high school used to throw seizure medication into co-employees drinks and then talk about it over dinner all the time, it was no big deal.
BEARS!
Yeah, NUSL is one of the highest priced law schools in the country and puts the majority of their grads in public interest jobs that pay 38K per year..
FRAT STUD, where are you?!? Is this a big deal?!?
*Runs home to turn on FRAT STUD search light to send out the FRAT SIGNAL*
@1:28 Oh my god, clown! Hahahahaha
can we find a picture of this Michelle Moor. Was she even worth drugging?
1:22 ... you are missing facts. Like, um, the ones in the article. "...Moor attended a dinner at a restaurant with fellow Bingham employees, one of whom, a litigation specialist who worked on the same floor as Moor, made 'a number of alarming sexually inappropriate comments' about 'roofies' and having sex with unconscious women. " ... "...When Moor again told the personnel officer she did not feel safe working near the man, she was told she could move to a different floor..."
Wait, so why are people blaming this on the firm? Are the partners supposed to go all CSI, whip out their lab tech kits and start waterboarding male associates to make them spill their guts as to who the culprit is?
"One, at minimum, raped. "
I don't think there's any allegation that he killed her, too.
@133
She went to Vassar, was in the Peace Corp in Africa and is over thirty.
Odds are no...
" "...When Moor again told the personnel officer she did not feel safe working near the man, she was told she could move to a different floor...""
1:33--Why is this not an appropriate first-wave action? Presumably they would need to prove wrongdoing before doing anything to the man. Or is allegation enough to warrant more than making her feel safer and more comfortable while investigation is being pursued?
Sadly, at my age, two glasses of wine are enough to knock me out. No roofies needed.
In February the accused was sacked. There was clearly an investigation that was going on during the interim. While I have sympathy for the victim here, I don't know what more she expects.
Wow, is this "rush to judgment against Biglaw when a woman may or may not have been maligned" week in the ATL comments or what?
1:39 - don't be an idiot. If someone makes a comment like that around multiple other employees, and you go to HR with it, they don't tell you to move floors. They quickly verify (or not) the story from the other employees. Go back to NUSL and TTTake an employment law class.
You don't have to summon Marxist rage to find Bingham's inaction objectionable, asshats.
I'm waiting to read a cogent argument that Bingham had no duty to protect one of its employees from the harm posed by another employee while in the office and at company functions, despite being put on notice of such harm.
so it seems that it is fact NOT ok to drug and rape women??...
So this guy raped and impregnated her, she miscarried, and 6 days later the firm canned her?? Bingham can say goodbye to top legal talent...
Not to sound callous, but if the father of the child was some date raping dirtbag, the miscarriage may have been a blessing in disguise.
Still, there's no excuse for the firm's conduct in firing her shortly thereafter.
i thought stuff like that only happened at Greenberg Traurig??
Hey, I'm new here. I'm a smart, sober young woman looking to have a fulfilling long term career in the law. I hear a good place to work might be Bingham. Is that true?
Oh, if it matters to your answer I also want to have a family in the future. Should I also consider Paul Hastings?
Thanks!
Brilliant, 1:50!!!
And the winner of this story is.... (drumroll)
Paul Hastings LLP!
@ GTLaw they would have eatten the miscarried baby...
UNLESS YOU'VE RAPED SOMEONE AFTER GIVING THEM DRUGS AT A FIRM FUNCTION YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO COMMENT ON THIS THREAD!!
several sticking points here: did the drug come from the wine she had at the party (as opposed to, say, an earlier stop at a bar?); did a Bingham employee or agent put it in her wine (respondeat superior)?; if so, did he/she do so within the scope of employment (frolic and detour?); did Bingham act negligently with respect to Moor's safety (any reason to believe the drinks will be roofied?); can Bingham interplead the restaurant?; was the restaurant negligent?
"Wait, so why are people blaming this on the firm? Are the partners supposed to go all CSI, whip out their lab tech kits and start waterboarding male associates to make them spill their guts as to who the culprit is?"
I would expect people who go ballistic over a typo to do that, yes.
1:55, is this an admission of fact? your ip address can be traced. you are the rapist link, goodbye.
1:44,
Wanna go out tonight?
Everyday and in everyway reading Above the Law makes me like lawyers and being a lawyer less and less.
that's terrible... i feel very sorry for the victim and I hope she gets over this terrible ordeal.
2:00, buy a pacifier, no one cares.
usually when I come home drunk and my wife asks me how many pops i've head I say 'maybe 2 or 3'
she's a drunk
1:56 is clearly a law student and is not impressing anyone....
Yeah, it sounds like they've mastered the balance of aggression and delicate handling.
Hey Lat. Way to let WSJ Law Blog beat you to the punch on posting this story.
Upshot will be no alcohol policy at BigLaw...ever!
I nominate 1:36 for DUMBEST COMMENT IN ATL HISTORY. Seriously. Wow.
(hey 1:36 - the "at a minimum" refers to the number one, not the rape)
2:04 - whatever, I totally rocked my torts exam.
what does TTT stand for?
I hear you, 2:00. That's why I read the Everyone forum at drslounge.com. It actually makes us seem less d-baggy. Follow the Y!FIMBA thread for a while and feel like you could actually do worse in terms of peers.
Are we to assume the roofie guy is not the same person as the rape incident?
"a litigation specialist who worked on the same floor as Moor" To me this says senior or specialized legal assistant, not atorney. A small point, but I doubt that a legal assistant is going to have patron partners protecting him from such a serious allegation. Sounds to me like the wheels were turning too slowly for Ms. Moor (which position I totally understand in this case).
1:56 just finished his 1L year. Someday he'll blossom into whatever comes after a myopic, socially-challenged law student and we'll all be proud of our little fella.
Then try writing non-ambiguous sentence next time, idiot.
how do we know she didn't roofie herself to try and forget the fact that she works at a craphouse like bingham
Can't somebody pull up the filings on pacer or whatever and let us know who Roofie Rapist, Esq. is?
I feel really bad for these women. It would be shocking to have even one drug-rape incident at a biglaw firm, but two drugged associates plus an employee who liked to brag about his use of roofies is completely insane!
Personal safety training? What, like Rex Kwon Do? That's always the best response, because after all, a woman can become good enough at martial arts to defeat a man in 1 session in the firm's conf. room. And WTF is a safety expert? I thought they were the bozos that try and get new parents to shell out big bucks to baby-proof the kitchen. More and more real life is becoming "The Office."
Wait, did the fat chick at the bar who threw the drink get no-offered as well??
The fat chick who threw the drink should definitely get an offer. She prevented the female associate from consuming any more of the laced drink by throwing it at the dude.
Guys at my high school used to drug women and take advantage of them all the time, and ... come to think of it, it was a really big deal. Seriously, those guys got expelled, and then criminally prosecuted. I think one of those girls sued also. What a terrible idea.
REMORSEFUL FRAT STUD
This story has been planted by PH Partners!!!!!
Epileptics in my high school used to accidently leave their Tegretol, an anti-seizure medication that causes memory loss when taken with alcohol, in drunk chicks' martinis all the time, it was no big deal.
But if the fat summer threw most of the drink out, how could the female associate have consumed enough of it to get raped and impregnated by this guy. Something about this story doesn't quite add up...
i know this board has some sickos who post on it, but do we really have to see comments about wanting to find the woman's photo to determine if she was "even worth drugging" (1:33pm)?
This is really xoxo level garbage....
Nothing to see here, move along folks...
I think she roofied herself so that she could forget that she got her uterus scraped
You can't rape the willing.
Me is Roger Lou and studying to be a lawyer of victims of terrible party crimes like this. I have highest credentials from my 1L year at the America's University, Washington College of Law. Hire me. I receive a "high A" in legal writing and care much about the victim of this and other tragedy.
I join together in your hands and with your heart in telling all people, including Frat Stud and GULC law students, that people in my native land get their hands chopped off for sticking the anti-seizure medication in the law woman's drink. I will not put up with this and take a pro bono stand against victimology of innocent women.
With respect,
诶比西
2:28
Brilliant! I am still laughing
2:28
Brilliant! I am still laughing
That's the problem with reading during the day. Most of the posts are from kids stopping over between classes.
2:28
Brilliant! I am still laughing
2:28 exhibiting anonymous chat board sanctimonious and condescending internet guy, taking a break from his alter ego anonymous chat board internet tough guy.
Best. Comments. Ever.
Roger "Luo" - you forgot to mention that Harvard = Best in Asia.
Clients get raped by biglaw all the time and it's no big deal. And they buy us the drinks...
Folks at Bingham are just doing it wrong.
For all you non-science lawyer types, they could easily test the uterus scrapings for DNA and attempt to match that against the alleged rapist. Not sure what you want the firm to do, as they're hardly equipped for that.
But miscarriages rarely occur without some pre-natal negligence, so she was likely pregnant BEFORE she drank the tainted cocktail.
This board is so bi-polar. Some days you have people reacting to the news of a horrible story (such as the murder of the Paul Hastings employee) by yelling at each other to show a little respect when someone makes a grammar comment. Then other days, you have people congratulating each other for making rape jokes, in the context of somebody actually getting raped.
Nothing to see here, move along folks...
If this guy did this, may he be castrated. By his victim.
I'm pro-castration of DNA-confirmed multiple roofie-using rapists. I'm sorry this causes consternation amongst the anti-crowd.
I don't understand the theory here at all. Was the woman interacting at the party with the "litigation specialist"? Or is she claiming that he randomly drugged her drink in order to somehow become alone with her at some point later and rape her? And where and when exactly was the rape supposed to take place?
Dear ATL readers,
I have recently been accused of druging and raping a co-worker. Can any suggest a good lawyer?!
Regards,
The Bing
2:45, no one actually got raped. Except Bingham's rep. That totally got f---ed in the a.
ATL to Rape Jokes!!!!
Dearest 2:52 PM.
This not a laughing matter. Although 2:38 points out that Harvard = Best in Asia, America's University's Washington College of Law is best in U.S. of A. I can help you obtain your hard-earned victory against the charges.
With respect,
诶比西
2:53, the article states that another associate (not the one bringing suit) was actually raped after being drugged at Bingham.
Or rather, that she alleges she was actually raped.
-3:01
Or rather, that she alleges she was actually raped.
-3:01
When is the next Paul Hastings article coming out?
I allege that I have a large penis, but all my girlfriends will tell you otherwise...
Biglaw to Bad PR week! (Although considering the state of the economy will have no problem filling 1st Year slots)
Wow. I'm seriously offended. The worst comments said she had no claim and/or asked about how good-looking she was and whether she was "worth raping." The former are horrible lawyers and the latter are horrible people.
I allege that I have a large penis, but all my girlfriends will tell you otherwise...
I allege that I have a large penis, but all my girlfriends will tell you otherwise...
3:01, no, the article does not state that anyone was raped or that anyone alleges having been raped. The article repeats an allegation by the departed associate that a different associate had claimed (to her) to have been raped but not to have reported it to the firm. The article does not contain any statement from the supposed "other associate" so there is not even corroboration of any claim of rape.
holy shit, 3:14, calm down.
To 1:33 (1) - you have the NUSL stats slightly skewed. Yes, it is one of the most expensive law schools in the country (student budget of around $63k, with very little FA available), but only about 15% of the class goes into public interest. Of course, the career services only ever posts public interest jobs, but that's another story.
There's one missing link here - did the senior associate who confided to Moor that she had been drugged and raped ever say who had done it? I ask because here's how I understand the chronology: associate gets drugged at holiday party, associate approaches senior associate about the incident, senior associate tells associate about her drugging/rape, and then associate overhears litigation specialist talking about roofies.
It seems bizarre to me that she would tell this junior associate that "somebody" had done it without naming the guy, especially after she'd gone through criminal channels.
Is anyone other than me upset that Bingham would let that bear hold a baby just to get a picture for an advertisement? It seems pretty irresponsible.
Sad, angry, wanting to sue?
For a free consulatation, contact
The Law Offices of 诶比西
1-800-Go-USofA
I am student of law (1L) on visa from PRC. I am attending America's University, Washington College of Law and love the advocacy roll of the America's legal system. I love the environment, hate nasty people, and I love the U.S. of A. and baseball game.
~~ Roger Lou
3:01 et al - yes, there is an allegation that someone (not the associate in question) was raped here. But with respect to the PH story, there was no more than an uncorroborated allegation that the firm fired an associate in a disrespectful manner - yet ATL readers managed to be respectful. Here, one or more Bingham women were allegedly victimized by a coworker, and we are deluged with rape jokes. I agree with the poster who said that there's some serious BPD going on here.
I hope she gets a ton of $$$$$ from Bingham.
Her current firm is SOOO TTT it can't afford photos for the bios. Not even for the name partners.
What? Tegretol doesn't cause memory loss! This is ridiculous and the drug has never been used as a date-rape drug.
Special bonus to roofies!
What? Tegretol doesn't cause memory loss! This is ridiculous and the drug has never been used as a date-rape drug.
Alleged rape or not, no one can deny Bingham's pownage.
I work at Bingham. The perpetrator went to UPenn State.
Philly Campus?
I love this thread.
who is roger lou?
What am I doing wrong?
Okay, I'm tired of beating around the bush. I'm a beautiful (spectacularly beautiful) 25 year old girl. I'm articulate and classy. I'm not from New York. I'm looking to get married to a guy who makes at least half a million a year. I know how that sounds, but keep in mind that a million a year is middle class in New York City, so I don't think I'm overreaching at all.
Are there any guys who make 500K or more on this board? Any wives? Could you send me some tips? I dated a business man who makes average around 200-250. But that's where I seem to hit a roadblock. 250,000 won't get me to central park west. I know a woman in my yoga class who was married to an investment banker and lives in Tribeca, and she's not as pretty as I am, nor is she a great genius. So what is she doing right? How do I get to her level?
Here are my questions specifically:
- Where do you single rich men hang out? Give me specifics- bars,
restaurants, gyms
-What are you looking for in a mate? Be honest guys, you won't hurt my feelings
-Is there an age range I should be targeting (I'm 25)?
- Why are some of the women living lavish lifestyles on the upper east side so plain? I've seen really 'plain jane' boring types who have nothing to offer married to incredibly wealthy guys. I've seen drop dead gorgeous girls in singles bars in the east village. What's the story there?
- Jobs I should look out for? Everyone knows - lawyer, investment banker, doctor. How much do those guys really make? And where do they hang out? Where do the hedge fund guys hang out?
- How you decide marriage vs. just a girlfriend? I am looking for MARRIAGE ONLY
Please hold your insults - I'm putting myself out there in an honest way. Most beautiful women are superficial; at least I'm being up front about it. I wouldn't be searching for these kind of guys if I wasn't able to match them - in looks, culture, sophistication, and keeping a nice home and hearth.
This girl went to UPenn St., Philly Campus.
This girl went to UPenn St., Philly Campus. That's why she can't find a man who makes $$$.
What does TTT stand for??
3:43 - please post the response that went with that. It was better than the original post.
The rape jokes are disgusting and unnecessary. Can't we give the girl her due and feel bad that she must have worked in an environment where she was afraid to drink anything and worried that people were getting hurt?
I read your posting with great interest and have thought meaningfully about your dilemma. I offer the following analysis of your predicament. Firstly, I'm not wasting your time, I qualify as a guy who fits your bill;that is I make more than $500K per year. That said here's how I see it.
Your offer, from the prospective of a guy like me, is plain and simple a crappy business deal. Here's why: Cutting through all the B.S., what you suggest is a simple trade: you bring your looks to the party and I bring my money. Fine, simple. But here's the rub, your looks will fade and my money will likely continue into perpetuity. In fact, it is very likely that my income increases but it is an absolute certainty that you won't be getting any more beautiful!
So, in economic terms you are a depreciating asset and I am an earning
asset. Not only are you a depreciating asset, your depreciation accelerates! Let me explain, you're 25 now and will likely stay pretty hot for the next 5 years, but less so each year. Then the fade begins in earnest. By 35 stick a fork in you!
So in Wall Street terms, we would call you a trading position, not a buy and hold...hence the rub...marriage. It doesn't make good business sense to "buy you" (which is what you're asking) so I'd rather lease. In case you think I'm being cruel, I would say the following: If my money were to go away, so would you, so when your beauty fades I need an out. It's as simple as that. So a deal that makes sense is dating, not marriage.
Separately, I was taught early in my career about efficient markets. So, I wonder why a girl as "articulate, classy and spectacularly beautiful" as you has been unable to find your sugar daddy. I find it hard to believe that if you are as gorgeous as you say you are that the $500K hasn't found you, if not only for a tryout.
By the way, you could always find a way to make your own money and then we wouldn't need to have this difficult conversation.
With all that said, I must say you're going about it the right way.
Classic "pump and dump." I hope this is helpful, and if you want to enter into some sort of lease, let me know.
Dearest Reader of ATL at 3:43 pm.
I am understanding that you are looking for a man to love. May that man be me? If we get married, I will make you $500,000 and you will make me a citizen of the greatest country in the world -- the U.S. of A.!
I am 诶比西, but my close friends and lovers call me the "Roger Lou" (a more Westernized name). I am a 1L law student at America's University, Washington College of Law, and will move to be with you in holy matrimony in the place they call the "Big Apples."
With respect,
诶比西
Hello 343. I come to U.S. and A. I make the money. Can I make romance inside you? I will buy you color television, beta-max recorder, cassette and microwave oven. I only ask you to touch my hrem. Chenqui.
Hot off the presees from AmLaw Daily:
http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2008/05/internal-bingha.html
Random: Per wikipedia Tegretol renders birth control useless.
Roger,
Will you let me play with your big apples?
-3:43
Ding! 3:51 wins. We can all go home now.
ATL has the email too:
http://abovethelaw.com/2008/05/bingham_mccutchen_date_rape_drug.php
Lat beaten to the punch once again--this time by AmLaw Daily---obviously Bingham thinks this is a very big deal
Isn't it possible to simultaneously (a) feel awful for the woman who (allegedly) was raped, and the woman who was almost raped and had to leave the firm, and hope they both screw Bingham in a major way if the firm in any way ignored complaints about this behavior and (b) think that some of the comments are funny, not for their subject matter, but out of sheer absurdity and tying in to something that happened almost a year ago and people still get confused?
All I'm sayin...
This would be a good Law & Order:SVU episode...no?
**********************************************************************************************************************
I repeat my question from before:
WHO IS ROGER LOU?
This is my first time hearing about him -- apparantly a foreign 1L studying at AU. Is this the new "Loyola 2L" or another "Frat Stud" who shows up on boards and writes letters about AU, signing "with respect"?
**********************************************************************************************************************
That second glass of wine is always the problem one.
Roger Lou (spelling changes) is some guy from Asia who claims to be here on a student visa. He is a terrible writer and tried to get into Harvard Law, but he got rejected. He is now a 1L at AU, in Washington, DC.
3:58-Nice CYA attempt Lat---your post is time stamped at 3:55 PM some 17 minutes after AmLaw Daily and 3 minutes after 3:52 made his post. Nice reporting.
4:04 -
Roger Lou is a TTT student at a TTT school. Not sure if he is real, but he is from some Oriental country like China or Vietnam. I think he claimed to have applied to all US schools (Harvard to Ave Maria / Thomas Cooley / Touro...) and only got into one -- American University. He seems to love his school (think "HofstraMagna", but a real student) for admitting it and is a good AU ambassador to ATL.
Me Roger Lou. Thank you for interest in me. I am who I am saying I am. I am foreign student attending America's University of Washington School of Laws. I am on ATL to make friend and discuss American jurisprudent, which I am admiring.
Tune into Tokyo!
With respect,
诶比西
3:29(1) - She won't get one sweet nickle from Bingham and will never work in biglaw again. Hope she enjoys her new job at Los Denfensores or Larry H. Parker.
If you get sexually assaulted or drugged, make all the absurd references you want. Otherwise, the classy thing to do is STFU.
4:17(2) are you out of your mind, or a cock, or both?
Friends,
I no know why everyone cares so much of my posts. My name is Roger Lou, and I despise the negative using of my name and claiming to be me for not nice reasons. I am me!
I was born in small town in China. I leave that country to this country to attend HLS -- best in Asia. When I write to applied to HLS, HLS tells Roger "there are many fine candidates, and we cannot accept all of them." Roger Lou was not accepted there or anywhere but one place. Roger was accepted to the official school of America - the America's University, Washington College of Law. Roger does very well there as a 1L and looking forward to practicing law in diverse areas like Intellectual Property and China Studies. I do pro bono and love the "Take me out to the Ballgame" song that I hear at baseball TV.
I think it is terrible day when people who no are named "Roger Lou" write and claim to be "Roger Lou." I want to make it in the U.S. of A. and be big partner at big lawfirm. I hear of lots of them by name on this website -- the Sutherland and the Paul Hastings and the Bingham -- and I hope that my good friends on www.abovethelaw.com will write me a referral letter so that Roger Lou can make the America's Dream of becoming rich and famous and getting lots of hot womens.
With respect,
诶比西
Guys at my high school used to pretend to be Roger Lou and speak Engrish all the time, it was no big deal.
I'll suck it up and post the obligatory...
诶比西 to 190K !!!
4:26 I'll go with c. both, plus i'll throw in i am a cold heartless bastard as well. nice guys finish last.
Nothing to see here folks, move along...
4:03 - "In the American legal profession, BigLaw clusterf*ck scandals are considered especially interesting. On the internet, the dedicated bloggers who post this juicy gossip are known as ATL. These are their stories." DA DUM.
Mariska Hargitay to 190K!
love the law & order shout out 5:04
3:43, your post is really inappropriate in *this* thread. You want to embark on some silly search for a sugar daddy, fine, but to do it on a thread about rape betrays a callousness that makes me doubt that you're actually a woman.
Regardless, if all you're REALLY after is money (talk about lazy and cliched), you can get it very easily. Marry an old dude. An ugly, diseased, creepy, millionaire old dude. If you can make out with THAT there's a fair argument you might've actually earned some of that money.
But if you're looking for a guy who makes money, can hold up his end of a conversation, can breathe without mechanical assistance, isn't a complete bone-headed asswipe, and doesn't look like Quasimodo, well, get in line, sister. Unfortunately those guys are a lot harder to find than you'd think. And guess what? Most of us in our mid-20s are pretty hot (at least on the coasts), because youth is itself a huge part of beauty (next to overall physical health, probably the most important). So you really have to up the ante if you want to stay in the competition. 3:51 is right -- where's your staying power?
Wow 5:19 is some Paul Hastings partner that was not forwarded the "infamous" craigslist posting and response.
http://www.snopes.com/love/dating/golddigger.asp
you are an idiot 5:19
5:24, yes, I must be an idiot because I don't read everything on snopes and craigslist. OMG whats next someone who doesnt read perez hiltonOMFG!!11!1!one!!
Regardless, posting it here was still inappropriate. Asshat.
it was a pretty widely circulated email. boy no sense of humor from this dumb broad.
We Need More Paul Hastings bashing!!!
Someone doesn't have a sense of humor if they didn't receive an email shared among a bunch of law students with nothing better to do? Now now, don't lash out over your embarrassment at acting like a limpdicked asswad with no reason to act like a limpdicked asswad (except that I guess that's your permanent state of existence). Just admit you fucked up and move on, princess.
boy someone hit a nerve
Nothing to see here folks, move along...
Triple hot fudge sundaes for everyone!!!
The craigslist story made the New York Times in October 2007 (as noted in the Snopes post) as well as the Times of London -http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article2653452.ece?token=null&offset=0 - it's not exactly some obscure episode circulated among bored law students. I don't think the fact that someone missed the story makes him/her humorless, but there's no need to insult those of us who happened to have been paying attention at the time.
This is not nearly as bad as PH's firing.
No where near as bad as the Paul Hastings Firing
And now the Paul Hastings Associates has done an interview. Man horrible PR week for Paul Hastings!
Shouldn't you all be billing hours?
What's the big deal? Free drugs are good drugs. What? Don't look at me like that
StuffBigLawAssociatesLike.wordpress.com
Last!