Lawyer of the Day: Bob Dillinger
Whatever happened to asking your paralegal to make some binders? Or asking your secretary for some photocopying, or to fill out your expense report? When it comes to support staff, why are lawyers getting so demanding all of a sudden?
First this. Now this, via the Tampa Tribune:
A former legal assistant in Pinellas-Pasco Public Defender Bob Dillinger’s office has filed a federal lawsuit against him, alleging she was retaliated against after complaining that male lawyers had made sexually degrading remarks to her.Jessica A. Schwartz filed the lawsuit Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Tampa….
[Schwartz’s boss Alan] Bulnes and another lawyer, Brett Berger, [allegedly] had a conversation with Schwartz in which they suggested she pole dance in her office like a stripper, the lawsuit states.
We bet those colored post-it flags would make great pasties.
Ex-Legal Assistant Sues Pinellas-Pasco Public Defender [Tampa Tribune]
Earlier: Paralegal: Will Collate, Will Not Fellate
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firsty!
So no thread on today's release of AmLaw's midlevel associate satisfaction survey?
Bad news for Cadwalader there. It's not been their week.
dirty, dirty paralegals..
Hey 3:55:
http://abovethelaw.com/2008/08/american_lawyer_midlevel_associates.php
This sort of post is why we'll miss Lat!
Post-it flags as pasties - classic ATL.
Outhouse will probably be upset though about the NFWS pole dance picture.
I think the Cadwalader thread deserves to be a past precedent.
Um - I hope there was more merit for this lady's suit than just this comment. I'm a woman, and that still just sounds like a joke. I need more information on tone and context.
There is more detail in the Tampa Tribune article that Lat links to.
Great post.
Kiss it g-bye if Marin wins:
http://livinginnarnia.blogspot.com/2008/07/view-from-narnia_30.html
V Monkey misses Tampa (Mons). . . but loving it in NY!
I implore you, post a Daguerreotype of this para-legal, post-haste!
Not funny. Not not not funny.
Holy crap, that stripper picture is of my ex-girlfriend!
Just so we are clear, its not okay to ask a paralegal to pole dance?
A UVA trained associate would never behave in such a deplorable manner.
So? Its not like he gave her a pearl necklace and made her walk to a public restroom to clean it off.
7- So, you understand that tone and demeanor are clear indications of whether a statement is meant to be understood as a joke, taken seriously, or otherwise. My limited understanding of whether such a joke or comment is meant to be understood as a joke, comment, or otherwise is determined by how the recipient understood it to be meant. Further, again with limited understanding, this test, that is how the listener understood it, was meant to give females the benefit of the doubt in civil actions for sexual harassment.
My question for you is: should males should be afforded the same benefit of any doubt? Would your answer be different if the accused were a male? Would your answer be different were the accused a female?
Sorry, I need to thoroughly preview these statements. -17
5, don't worry about Lat leaving. We still have Kash around to write dirty stories for us. I vote Kash for new ATL editor!
Ewww.... I prefer my strippers not to be preggo Chinese rhythmic gymnasts. Female pulchritudinous is not in Lat's wheelhouse . . . hmm, wonder why.
20 - make that *pulchritudinousness* - Also, let's not beat around the bush - as a homosexual, Lat has no eye for female beauty.