gay. 1st.

A. Who cares?
B. Does the M&A in "Aaron's presence will further strengthen our M&A practice" mean Man Ass! Totally gay!

Good for him. Proves that standing up to a nasty firm doesn't have to be career suicide. Bravo.

Very happy my firm passed when we got the resume.

So...can we leave this guy alone now?

Probably - unless he sues Clifford Chance too!

Anyway, 10:47 is right, good for ABC (and for CC).

I gotta feeling that Aaron likes the limelight, so I don't think we've heard the last of him.

#8, what gives you that feeling? Lat's infatuation with this story doesn't mean that Charney likes the attention.

Aaron Charney's a douche.

Is this a Life Partner track position? How many years?

In what universe does adding a mid-level associate 'strengthen' a practice in any newsworthy way?

Maybe in Des Moines or something.

I'm disturbed by the apparent homophobia in these comments.

Most firms are racist, bigoted, and anti-Semitic. Some firms just hide it better than others.

Clifford Chance to gay!

Clifford Chance to gay!

Congrat's to Aaron Charney and Clifford Chance!

Congrat's to Aaron Charney and Clifford Chance!

Charney is fairly cute. I'd give him like an 8.4.

CC is a hell of a step down from S&C.

if he had been a different person and had sued for race discrimination or sexual harassment there'd be no way any other firm would have taken on a trouble maker like that

good for him

what about his colleague?

Charney needs to make his eyebrow shaving a little less obvious. I bet he gets some ridiculous mid-forehead five o'clock shadow.

ITDA with 20. CC is an international firm. S&C is the old Wall Street that's falling apart.

23, nobody shaves eyebrows. That's what tweezers are for.

Funny, I don't hear anyone admitting they were wrong about Charney's future. One thing is clear, a firm made up of the automatically negative posters on this blog (whatever the story), would be a TTT.

Congrats Clifford for choosing to chance it on Charney.

Let us remember a few facts about Charney's case, shall we?

A confidential, privileged memorandum was stolen from the office of the partner sitting next to Charney's office. That information was leaked by Charney to the Wall Street Journal. Charney's explanation is that an anonymous source had this information delivered to his private residence, and he has no idea where it came from.

That Charney is still a member of the Bar after this is outrageous. That he can find employment at a law firm (although admittedly not a very good one) is incomprehensible.

Fed Soc

Did anyone not expect Aaron to win the Next Food Network Star?

Hey #28 - I'm betting you are in violation of some kind of confidentiality agreement. maybe go back in your holw now b/f you get your employer or yourself into trouble.

25 - Nobody except Charney, which was the point.

#9 -- It's just a hunch, although I don't have time to go through the huge "record" of Charney/S&C coverage to provide you with a specific "citation." I could be wrong, but time will tell. #8

29 - the fix was so in for him. That's why they brought back 3 finalists even though Aaron bombed last week. Probably the right choice though - Lisa knows more about food but she's irritating to watch. Who cooks in those clothes?!?

33 - I agree about the Flapper (Lisa) being irritating. And how does she see what she's doing? She squints so damn much. I think the BBQ guy would have been most entertaining to watch, but his show concept, while different, was stupid.

#30 - the info posted by #28 is all in the public domain.

Yo #35... why would you even care? lmao at you

#3, 5, 8, 10, 11, 12, 15, 16, 20, 28: Hi there, Mr. DiBlasi -- do you have a couple minutes? Max Mosely's on line one.

thanks number 4

Fool me once shame on you . . . .

I will not feel the least bit sorry for this clown if he gets mistreated again. When you step into big law, you are stepping into a disgusting fraternity culture. It's excusable that it happened to him once, but you would think that anybody with half a brain would work at another type of frim other than big law once he was treated that way.

Just wait until one of the partners shows Charney'

Good for Clifford Chance... glad to see some shops are not fundamentally evil

all biglaw is evil ... Cliffords is "lesser evil" for this move tho

29 - I was pretty surprised. Aaron is just so uncomfortable to watch, like when he did that "I have an eating disorder" bit. Lisa, while super-anal, might be okay to watch if edited down.

To all the commentators who've posted such negative things about AC over the past months -- how does the crow taste?

Accord No. 4.

And the grumbling probably comes because apparently CC has done some layoffs (perhaps performance based, I don't know)--people likely upset that current CC attorneys were let go to make room to hire Charney (and possibly others).

A few years ago, there were rumors floating around about Clifford Chance's own sexual harassment scandals, of the male partners' dropping hotel room keys into female associates laps variety.

So Clifford the Big Red Dog actually has his own law firm? Interesting, I never would have guessed it.

#28 - wasn't that "privileged, confidential" memorandum basically about S&C using its client's own "privileged, confidential" information (I think it was internal Goldman Sachs' employee reviews) for its own purposes, which GS was none too happy about?

Leaking a confidential firm memorandum is wrong - but so is misappropriating your client's confidential info. There was more than enough blame to go around on both sides, which was probably why S&C settled when they couldn't dismiss the complaint - too much opportunity for further embarrassment.

Seriously... one will always wonder what ugliness we cuold have learned about old S&C had the matter not been settled.