what, no cheap comment about the other shoe dropping?

I particularly like that someone forwarded the email asking that emails not be forwarded. Good show ol' chap.

THIS! THIS gets a follow up and Dechert gets two snide responses burried in comments.

Elie, what the fuck are you doing?

Fourth!!!

Ha ha spectacular. Everyone likes a happy ending (and Mr. Rogers is no shoe). Yay.

i'm glad the law school attention is finally off michigan.

*returns to perfecting my writing sample*

-nervous T-10 1L

Thank god at least one Tulane student had a sole.

Nervous T-10 1L knobbed off the Tulane dean for a job.

And he is still unemployed.

Looks like Nervous really is good for nothing.

-Confident 2L

Hey, nervous T-10 1L - you keep doing this and it's reallly pissing me off: *returns to perfecting HIS (not my) writing sample*

Why not quote the most interesting part of the article:

The sneaker hadn't traveled very far, she said. Someone had tied it to a pipe beneath a sink in one of the women's restrooms at the museum.

Elie - you really are a stupid shit. I have continued to read this blog hoping you'll improve but enough's enough. There are a lot of other biglaw blogs now, and it's time to move on. I'll leave this one to you and the students.

Now they can take down the "On loan to some drunken Tulane student" placard.

oh shit. a V10 firm is laying off a bunch of people

What are some of the other BigLaw blogs? I need to move on but ATL is all I have known...

V5 in DC has been having meetings all morning. Somethings amiss.

Why no mention before of the smashed display case?

14: V10 in NYC? I herd that 2.

3: actually, it seems that the message from the Vice Dean was not sent as an e-mail to students, but rather was posted as a comment directly on ATL. If I understand correctly, he is asking ATL to check with him first before posting on internet any e-mails that is addressed to the students.

Mystall swam around in the tank and ate all of the jelly fish after the TTTulaners had sex with them. It was nuts.

At least it wasn't my dean this time.
- WCL student

19-
why? Everyone knows when you hit send, that e-mail is gone and you've got no more control over it. If you don't want it going out to other people, then use a distribution method other than e-mail.

19: you're wrong. this was a message sent to students that happened to be posted on ATL

Amusing that a Dean at a law school does not understand the limits in his power to demand that people ask permission to print his emails.

Hey Mystall, whats going on? I'm Mark Wahlberg. I see you are fat, eat a lot and wear pampers. I like that. Ok, well, say hi to your mother for me.

Suck it.

"I am pleased to announce that the shoe (Mr. Rogers) has been returned to the Children's Museum."

I was unaware that the shoe was named Mr. Rogers.

Elie appropriately pimp-smacking Tulane administration. Well done.

Does Mr. Rogers make enough to take me any my total hot girlfriends to glam dinners? He looks pretty tease-worthy. Hope W.

How long until our favorite pro-se plaintiff (Mr. Riches) attempts to file suit on behalf of this poor, abused shoe?

My question is how hard did the staff really look for the shoe if it was in the women's bathroom the entire time? A drunken prank of moving a museum piece (while stupid) seems much more likely than actually removing it from the museum.

18:

You "herd"? Are you a milking cow? RU2KOOL to type out the word "too" instead of 2? Do those extra two punches on the keyboard cause you pain?

25: NICE!

Ya herd! Derty Souf straight outta Houston, y'all!! We gots all kinda of perty shiney classy stuff for yo ass.

poot

Dechert follow up please!

Elie's approach to lay offs (both rumored and confirmed):

1) If the firm is upfront and honest about the cuts, it is summarily ripped apart in multiple, snark-filled posts (See Cadwalader coverage).

2) If the firm is deceptive about the reasons behind lay offs, and declares that the lay offs were performance driven, ATL takes this approach: "Well, there are multitudinous comments to the contrary, but we have a statement from the firm's official spokesman, and he says that there have been no lay offs. So let's just go with that." (See Dechert coverage).

"One of your law students steals a piece of Americana from a museum for children not one year after befouling a public aquarium, and the moral of the story is "don't post emails to the internet.""

This needs a comma, right? It's a question, right? Am I right?

"One of your law students steals a piece of Americana from a museum for children not one year after befouling a public aquarium, and the moral of the story is "don't post emails to the internet.""

This needs a question mark at the end, right? It's a question, right? Am I right?

4, shut up!

Did anyone see Troy McClure there?

There are better things to be talking about. This is ridiculous that this is considered newsworthy. Get over yourselves.

Booyashackalacka 25! Hooray Wahlberg.

Rude Boi Bumbaclot

i think i just realized that i'm gay for mystal. perhaps we will give me a job if he lets me **** him.

-nervous T-10 1L

i think i just realized that i'm gay for mystal. perhaps we will give me a job if he lets me **** him.

-nervous T-10 1L

i think i just realized that i'm gay for mystal. perhaps we will give me a job if he lets me **** him.

-nervous T-10 1L

This article is just another example of poor reporting. Not only does the author ignore the fact that the shoe was never removed from the museum, it also gets the timeline wrong. Last year, the event was held at the National WWII Museum. The aquarium wasn't last year. Get the story straight.

True story about Griffin:

During a con law class, he said "Richard Nixon put his taint on the executive privilege. The other class laughed when I said that, and I don't know why. Because it's true. He put his taint on it."

He was honestly confused.

"Something tells me that the many (many, many) students that sent around your... "

"who" not "that"

46: and yet, it rings strangely true.

Gee, think he'll give permission?

Did the Dean ask that the Times-Picayune get his permission before reporting, or was this a request just for ATL?

So it's okay that the local newspaper reports, because New Orleans residents know that half of the residents of New Orleans are crooks (see, police chief, elected officials, etc.), but maybe the rest of the country hasn't figured it out yet?

Wow, people, relax. I'm sure the dean gets how email works and was just requesting some courtesy within the law school community (knowing full well that some will not abide).

What's lame is that this author, rather than just take a light-hearted jab at the dean for his unrealistic request, seems to want to lecture him.

- Not Griffin, and not at Tulane

TTTaint

I told you it was an Indian LLM student. Those guys were always the heart of the party at Tulane

yup, ball was at WWII museum last year...

yup, ball was at WWII museum last year...

I'm personally more embarrassed by our Vice Dean's grammar and writing style than I am by the temporary absence of the shoe. The full text of the first email (which nevertheless ought not have been "leaked" to the blogs, in my opinion) includes odd comma splices, colloquialisms mixed in with pompous formalities, and several misplaced modifiers. Plus (pet peeve) at least one "weak pronoun reference" error (my term for the use of an incorrectrelative pronoun at the outset of a sentence, without any true referent for the pronoun: "Milton was Puritan and blind. This means he hated most members of Parliament."). I would not complain about the Dean's writing except that we've been receiving other emails unrelated to the shoe incident from him during the past few weeks, and it's getting really grating. He gets an F in LRW.

I had taken a picture of the shoe display but deleted it prior to learning of the disappearance. I do recall that one shoe had a lace in it (the left one, on the viewer's right) and the other did not. The plexiglass case which they were in, was at roughly waist height on an adult, which would be appropriate viewing height for a small child. I'm surprised the cardigan remained intact.

from a Tulane Law student

This is why I do not wear shoes when I meet with Counsel from Tulane.

Nice little bully pulpit action there, what is the big deal about an unprofessional moment by a professional student. I guarantee it happens at most other schools too, just without the headline benefit of the lovable Rogers' shoes.

I go to Tulane and have never heard of this aquarium thing, so if it ever happened, it was not last year.

For you to lecture the Vice Dean about his handling of the matter is laughable. You think it is his job to babysit, or worry about "comportment," but not to manage the situation then you are naive and your snarky comment was punitive at best. Is it a professional thing to spread an e-mail addressed to the student body to an internet publication? Why shouldn't someone expect that his e-mails be treated with some amount of respect by the student body.

You pretty much missed the point here. This was unprofessional behavior and I am pissed about it, but you have no credible reason for writing it up as you did. It was poor work.

Tulane 2L

I really appreciate you portraying Tulane student's as drunken fornicators who can't be left alone. Too bad your story has major errors, why should you have to worry about being accurate?

Honestly, leaking the emails is only hurting the students...whether they be innocent of the wrongdoing or not. The fact is: when this becomes public, Tulane gets more and more bad publicity. Ultimately, they get a bad reputation. When you students graduate for this university and apply for jobs, don't you think that may have some influence over potential employers? First of all, y'all can't seem to keep your mouths shut...there goes confidentiality out the window. Y'all act like jackasses...no firm wants that. So what is really left for you?

There could be a good case made, for the notion that fame as a "rigorous" school that nevertheless "parties hard" would lead to better, rather than worse, job placement. Many many senior partners simply weren't top students or drudging study-obsessed midnight oil-burners, though they tend to hire people with higher grades relative to the class as a whole. Appearing to produce people who "break the typical mold" of boring but studious young associate? Might not be a bad idea.

I'm not necessarily advocating that it IS a good idea. Just suggesting that there's some wiggle-room here. To be labeled as a high-rollin' hard-drinkin' fast-livin' law school is not, necessarily, to be labeled as an incompetent or scholastically inferior law school. Or as one which doesn't produce desirable employment candidates.