Open Thread: The Time for Giving… To Lawyers!
We’ve covered gift-giving by lawyers, to their secretaries and administrative support staff. Now, it’s time to move on to gift-giving to lawyers.
This is an open thread to discuss best gifts for lawyers. Perhaps you can e-mail the post out to friends and relatives instead of compiling the hated gift wish list.
To get your creative juices flowing, here’s a few ideas we came up with:
For the lawyers who like bling: Profession Gifts offers this pin up as “a beautiful clothing accessory that makes both a professional and fashion statement.” Indeed.
For the lawyer doing doc review around the country: We hate stripping down to go through airport security and unloading the contents of our carry-ons. While the shoes, the belt, and the metal bustier still have to be shed, laptops can stay in their bags according to a TSA policy change made this summer. The catch is that you have to have a special “checkpoint-friendly” bag (via USAToday). Here are some bags fitting the bill from The Week.
For those who work so hard that they never see their kids: It’s nice to remind the little ones of their absent parents. For Counsel has a whole section of “Gifts for Lawyers’ Babies and Toddlers.” We like the idea of branding the little one with this bib.
For the lawyer with lots of weird stuff on his or her desk: We might recommend Supreme Court Bobbleheads (if you can get one) from the Green Bag. Scalia’s up for grabs on eBay at the moment. Current bid: $102.50.
For the kinky lawyer: A “justice is blind” blindfold.
So here’s an open thread to discuss what you want this year (besides a Skadden-sized bonus). What do you recommend giving to legal folk this holiday season?
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These pretzels are making me lame.
LOL AT LATHAM
fourthypretzelspwn3d!
A full size bonus would do just fine. Thank you.
attorney work product?
never have i been happier to be the first lawyer in my family.
fluff.
Are you kidding? Are we talking about the same people who piss and moan about spending $50 or $100 on their assistants?
Fed cut the rate to 0-.25%. Now its official, we are all fucked.
BITCH SPREAD THE BUTT CHEEKS SO I CAN SMELL THE JUICY INSIDES!
9 Not complaining,but could you at least give some context so I can understand the joke? There has to be something more to it? Right?
9 is really annoying. I read this at work. That's just what I need in all caps on my screen as somebody walks in.
It's not a joke. it's meant to be the most annoying post in history. So annoying that it sends even jaded Gen Y into an uproar.
Okay, the "mess ipsa loquitur" bib is actually hilarious.
The "attorney work product" bibs are great. I've given them as gifts twice to lawyer friends who had babies.
How about a baseball autographed by Sandra Day O'Connor which she signed when she was Jurist in Residence at Cornell Law School last Fall.? I recently put it up for sale on eBay with a minimum bid of $100 and got no bids...if anyone wants it (purchase price is payable to a tax-exempt), let's make a deal.
I am going to puke.
Someone has a serious ass fetish. Just saying.
I mean, I like asses, and I have something of a fetish, but I am damn picky about the types of asses that I worship. It's not going to be indiscriminate, that's for sure. I draw the line at a Hofstra grad.
15 - Not buying that this is real. If it were, how in the world could it have not sold? I'd pay thousands for one signed by one of the judges that actually cares about the Const, like Thomas. [hitting the ground so that the lib wackies can sling mud]
where is the thacher dissolution/merger/mayhem news this site promised yesterday?
Just bought two of the "attorney work product" bibs. Thanks for the tip, Kash.
Pathetic that there's been so little coverage of Dreier ..could have at least had some post about its bankruptcy filing.
where is the thacher dissolution/merger/mayhem news this site promised yesterday?
I wonder how many people are losing their jobs just because they hang out on this post all day, instead of doing actual work. Ha ha idiots!
A nice fluffy sheep makes an excellent present for a stressed out lawyer this cold dreary holiday season to nail when he feels blue.
23 - glad to see that you are not hanging out on this post . good luck hanging on to your job doing "actual work"
I'm billing my ass off here!
THREAD JACK
Is the Lipstick Building cursed?
1) Madoff
2) Dreier LLP
3) Latham and Watkins
This all really weirds me out. I talked the partner and our client out of having a drafting session over there because of the "potential for media exposure". But really I am trying to hide the partner from the "potential for pay freeze exposure".
What do I want for the holidays? An ATL editor who knows how to use spell and grammar check!
I bet the peanuts and cheese guy has a suggestion for what he'd like.
What do I want for the holidays? An ATL editor who knows how to use spell and grammar check!
I would just like to get a job one of these days. Health insurance would be nice, too.
Top 20 undergrad, Top 50 law school, class of '07, still unemployed.
9- virgin?
All I want for Christmas is for Axiom to turn the damned i right side up in their logo...Is that too much to ask?
lats mom
9 = Texan with a butt fetish
9 = clarence thomas
I want an interview.
T-27 Grad
A mustache ride?
18-this is absolutely real...my son is a 3L at Cornell and got her to sign two balls, one of which was auctioned for charity at Cornell already... and I'm happy to let it go for $100 if we can establish contact.
woo hoo! I have Scalia, Kennedy, and O'Connor bobbleheads sitting on my office shelf. I had no idea the'd have any real ebay value.
39, I don't care about the ball...but are you a MILF? If so, I'd love to establish contact with you...
Peter Griffin: Hehehehe. Balls.
Elie, please don't ever use the phrase "creative juices" on ATL again. Also, there's this book you should read called On Writing Well. Specifically refer to the chapter on use of cliches.
Thanks.