Associate Life Survey: Lawyer and Commenter Of The Year
Now that we’re nearing the end of the year, it’s a good time to put things in perspective.
While recent posts have focused on what Elie calls “the four hoursemen of the economic crisis” (layoffs, salary freezes, low bonuses, and dissolution), we should always remember that there’s crushing debt, too. ATL can also be a place for hope.
Just last year, a “skinny kid with a funny name” was nominated for ATL Lawyer of the Year … and lost to an ATL commenter-prophet with a not-so-funny view of his career prospects.
In honor of that improbable victory by Loyola 2L, today’s ATL / Lateral Link survey calls for nominations for this year’s Lawyer of the Year.
Last year, your nominees included luminaries like Barack Obama (because “I mean, did you see the Obama Girl videos?”), Hillary Clinton (“She’s fabulous.”), Alberto Gonzales, (“Exemplifies why lawyers are so mistrusted in this country.”), Aaron Charney, (“For both the attention focused, success of action, and for the visibility [he] brought to the secondary issue of partner/associate relations (but not those kinds of relations).”), and, of course, the winner, Loyola 2L (“He’s generated the most thoughtful discussion of law school. That, and perhaps the publicity will help him get a job.”).
Submit your nominations for this year’s Lawyer of the Year below.
Also, in honor of Loyola 2L’s victory, we’re adding a bonus question (which may be the only bonus some of you get this year): we’re accepting nominations for the ATL Commenter of the Year, so you can tell us who’s “First!” in your heart.
Of course, even though there’s a spot for you to nominate a Commenter of the Year, you can also still feel free to nominate a commenter for Lawyer of the Year, too. Or, as one commenter in particular might put it, there are …
TWO! TWO PLACES TO NOMINATE COUNT LAYOFFULA!!! AH AH AH!!!!!
Update: This survey is now closed. Click here to see the nominees for Lawyer of the Year, and here to see who was nominated for Commenter of the Year.
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Justin Bernold is a Director at Lateral Link, the sponsor of this survey.
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Don´t be afraid to be weak
Don´t be too proud to be strong
Just look into your heart my friend
That will be the return to yourself
The return to innocence
In this economy, it's time to return to innocence.
/s Well hung hippie recruiter who will take you away from this rat race.
first??
I believe I should be nominated because do you actually think the guy in the $5,000 suit is going to give you anything but a half-Skadden bonus??
COME ON!
Lawyer of the Year - Marc Dreier
Who better represents the profession in public, and what we are capable of in interacting our peers and subordinates?
Commenter of the Year - Fraternity Lothario
Although his posts have been less frequent, no one is more eloquent (e.g. ATL EIC) while comically germane.
Commenter of the year is clearly guest.
Guest has been there from day one, with a range of insight. Sometimes witty, sometimes irreverent, sometimes just plain raunchy or dumb, but always guest has been dedicated to posting numerous comments on a wide range of topics.
Here's to you, guest! You are Commenter of the Year, and you have earned it!
You should nominate me because do you think the guy wearing the $8,000 pants is going to give you anything but a half-Skadden bonus? COME ON!!!
DONUTS and MILK!!!!!!!!
Vote for Fraternity Lothario!
(at least the one who wrote for half the year, then formally retired over the summer)
Funny as a flaming bag of dog poop!
Bah. Layoffula was ripped off from somebody else. Poor form.
I vote Glass Cock. Or guest. Guest has earned it.
Lawyer of the Year - Marc Dreier
Who better represents the profession in public, and what we are capable of in interacting our peers and subordinates?
Commenter of the Year - Fraternity Lothario
Although his posts have been less frequent, no one is more eloquent (e.g. ATL EIC) while comically germane.
I voted for Nervous T-10 1L as commentator of the year. Might as well give the kid something to be happy about.
GOB is making a strong case late in the year. Love the pic...
Lawyer of the Year - Judge Halverson (until ATL runs a Judge of the Year competition).
Commenter of the Year - Nervous T10 1L - personifies the sense of impending doom for the career prospects of all lawyers-to-be.
Commenter of the Year gets to nail a sheep. Keep your eye on the prize, bitches.
Nervous T10 was great. Until he mentioned his "gpa" this Fall. Which made him clearly not a 1L...broke all my illusions, my trust and faith in a powerful image. And, not surprisingly, he's never been back since.
Bauer came on late, but he's amazing.
Jack Bauer for the win. I'm afraid what he'll do to me if I don't vote for him.
The man just won't stop until he gets what he wants. He'll shoot your wife in the kneecap, if he has to, damn it!
I can't live with that kind of fear.
jack, you have my vote.
BITCH SPREAD THE BUTT CHEEKS SO I CAN SMELL THE JUICY INSIDES!
Lawyer of the Year
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Phil Telfeyan
I don't know any other person who would take the LSATs, apply and go to law school, purely to infiltrate BIGLAW to get information leading to the takedown of a suspected traitor to this nation.
Jack, we salute you.
Lawyer of the Year
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Phil Telfeyan
Lawyer of the year is the Laid Off Associate because he has nothing better to do than read and comment on this site.
Is it a known fact that Loyola 2L is male?
18, you are gross.
Lawyer of the Year
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Phil Telfeyan
AAHHHHHHH AT NUMBER 18! DIE! DIE!
That guy with the mouse with the big head for an avatar -- I don't know who he was, but gosh was he brilliant.
I mean, sharp comments that always stood out in my mind. And the perfect spelling and grammar -- I felt like I was learning when I read his comments.
Who was that masked commenter? He was a god among lawyers.
Judge Halverson and her kuato for Lawyer of the Year
Mark Wahlberg - commenter of the year
Lawyer: Harvard Law Avenger.
Commentator: Jack Bauer.
t-10 1L started at Mich in the summer which is why he had a gpa in the fall
Glass Cock or Layoffula for best commentator. glass cock's photo is amazing
I think Michelle Obama to Commenter of the Year because she is so BeeYOOOteeefulllll!!!
I am prolific.
Shouldn't the award be named: The Loyala 2L Commenter of the Year Award?
or Loyola...
I CAN'T STAND THE FUCKING CAT PICTURES ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
i have taken nervous T-10 1L captive and will only release him when the cat pictures stop forever!!!!
wait...maybe i should have kidnapped layoffula. the cat pictures will probably increase in frequency now...
I too nominate Guest, for both lawyer and commentator. Who else captures our highs and our lows... our happiness and our struggles? Who better knew our pain through this economy, and hopes with us for the upcoming year.
Guest deserves a special honor, not only in our hearts, but on ATL.
My ATM keeps telling me to feed it those LOL CATS. Its insatiable; the Mystal of ATMs
When blogs post about themselves, and whorishly try to obtain comments and submissions about themselves, I'm afriad they've jumped the shark.
Although I am guest, I chose to nominate Nervous instead. Nervous is mad funny, and I miss his posts. Hopefully, him winning, will encourage him to continue posting.
-vote in support of the lolcats-
I'm Guesticus!
I am guest, hear me roar.
If only JT's ability to comment from work had not been banned. Nonetheless, please keep Justin & Timberlake, the powerhouse "bet the couch and the Honda" matrimonial boutique, in your hearts and minds this year.
Beau Biden- Attorney General of Delaware and son of VP elect- Joe Biden. Living, breathing example of the axiom it is who you know not what you know that determines where you find yourself in the food chain of life. Beau finally passed the DE Bar on his 4th try. Too bad Delaware does not have a US Attorney like Fitzgerald in Chicago. I would have loved to hear the wiretaps of conversations between the Gov. of DE and Biden about who would fill Biden's seat. The well known Lt. Governor, John Carney, was passed over in favor of a former staffer of Biden who promised to stay in the Seante only 2 years so Beau Biden can run for the seat in 2012 and have as little competition as possible.
Beau Biden- Attorney General of Delaware and son of VP elect- Joe Biden. Living, breathing example of the axiom it is who you know not what you know that determines where you find yourself in the food chain of life. Beau finally passed the DE Bar on his 4th try. Too bad Delaware does not have a US Attorney like Fitzgerald in Chicago. I would have loved to hear the wiretaps of conversations between the Gov. of DE and Biden about who would fill Biden's seat. The well known Lt. Governor, John Carney, was passed over in favor of a former staffer of Biden who promised to stay in the Seante only 2 years so Beau Biden can run for the seat in 2012 and have as little competition as possible.
Tried to vote - told me I already had. You messed up. My nomination is of the anonymous bigfirm partner (who could be revealed if a winner) who said of layoffs: "Once you put aside feelings, it's a math problem."
I voted for nervous...hopefully he'll come back after finals!
I am commenter of the year!
Legal Fraternity Lothario tips his hat to his worthy predecessor, Fraternity Lothario, who was as sophisticated a practioner of the obfuscatory arts as has been seen on these pages. Legal Fraternity Lothario is, his own self, a mere shell of his more illustrious predecessor, and merely occupies the meme in order that it is not lost in the shifting sands of time.
FRAT STUD, wherefore art thou?
Permalink for commenter of the year.
lolcatz are not that funny. Please stop using them as images.
Beau is his name?
... at sea off Carriacou ...
Gentlemen at my preparatory academy frequently advanced my nom de plume (as distinguished from my bona fide given and Christian names) for candidacy for one farcical canonization or another in a hopeless attempt to inject hilarity into the gloomiest hours of the plague years. It was not a conspicuous event.
~ Fraternity Lothario
Beau Biden's brother is named Hunter, that one should be DE's AG instead, just on name intimidation alone.