FIRST!!!!!!!

First!

your mother was first, to rim job.

what's going on at mofo?

mofo didn't even send me a rejection letter. maybe they were trying to save on paper and postage...they must be in real trouble.

-nervous T-10 1L
4 interviews
3 offers
1 sa position

FIRST to point out that Elie is a MOFO!!

MoFo compares itself to Orrick and Latham to a degree, but Cooley and Wilson Sonsini are also factors. Did Cooley freeze salaries along with the layoff? I don't think Wilson has announced anything yet - neither of these (nor MoFo I think) has the financial services exposure of most of the firms that have frozen, tech sector is not going to get it as bad so maybe they will be in the group that doesn't freeze.

Any news o nCahill layoffs?

no freeze at Cooley.

Am I the only one praying that a giant ASSLOBSTER lops nervous T-10's head off with a giant claw?

What happens if Kash FARTS while we're eating her ASS LOBSTER?!

@12 -- Feels like the gentle trade winds of the Caribbean.

11, 12: lame, not funny.

and now for your Black-u-Weather forecast...

"#14, you gunna die!"

Thank you, Ollie.

"tech sector is not going to get it as bad"

Um, in a cave much recently? How many layoffs did MS announce? What's happening to advertising budgets, the lifeblood of Google, Yahoo and many others? What's happening to capital expenditure budgets of non-tech corps? It's all reduce, retrench, prepare for a long drought. Tech is going to get tough, too.

I think Rusty Danger might be Kash's giant ASSLOBSTER. No, no wait. He's just a giant ASS.

Of all the trolls on ATL, 14 is definitely the WORST.

Im guessing that the closest 14 has come to a naked woman is when he was born.

14 = naked woman which is why she/he is so angry at Kash's ASSLOBSTER.

15 = 17 = 18

Lame, not funny. Insults consist of death threats, references to ASSLOBSTERS, and claims re lack of promiscuity -- in other words, nothing you couldn't hear on a middle school playground.

You are not funny. You are not welcome here.

16 - tech sector going to get tough, but Google, MS, Yahoo are not dissolving or just stopping to do business like wall street...

Rusty Danger Trombone, go back to Tulane. We do not like your kind here.

UVA2L

Where has FRATERNITY LOTHARIO gone?

MoFo is for TTT douches.

What is happening in Boston? Choate? Bingham?

ROD PAMPERS

Nervous T-10 1L:

Stop being an obnoxious tool bag. Nobody gives a fuck about your sa position. Go brag to your friends at school who probably all want to take you out back and...

ASSLOBSTER > Christianity

If they haven't told you yet or if they have told you they are still monitoring the market - then your salary is frozen. They just don't want to tell you flat-out.

"both are resident of Washington DC"...who editted their press release? Elie...I'm looking at you.

The headline to this piece is inane - it will be both a gain for Goodwin and a loss for MoFo.

Guys in my high school used to snag rainmaking partners all the time, 'twas no big deal.

P.S. I'M BACK BITCHES!!

30, learn to read "...both are resident IN Washington, D.C." (emphasis added). The part to which you should have taken offense was "D.C." The proper abbreviation is DC...or do other partners work in N.Y.?

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--Elie.

27 : lame. See video of 27 here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQb2m6VJ-eo

"Obnoxious tool bag" + "nobody gives a fuck" + claim that 1L's classmates want to injure him/her = proof of your insecurity.

Also, your comments remain not funny.

You are not welcome here, so put the lotion back in the basket and leave.

35 -- God hates you.

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--Elie.

LIST OF FREEZING SHAME:

Arent Fox
Arnold & Porter
Chadbourne & Parke
DLA Piper
Dorsey & Whitney
Fulbright & Jawoski
Goodwin Proctor
Latham & Watkins
Mayer Brown
Morgan Lewis
Orrick
Perkins Coie
Sheppard Mullin
Sidley Austin
Sonnenschein
Steptoe Johnson

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--Elie.

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--Elie

36: you prove my point (re your lameness, insecurity, and lack of wit) with every post. Thanks for that.

It takes a strange and troubled person (you) to creep around this blog all day, insulting strangers and acting like a 12 year-old. It just takes a bored person (me) to call you on it.

You are lame. Leave.

SAN FRANCISCO = WORSE THAN HOUSTON

San Francisco firms are so badly run that I wouldn't be surprised if Mofo or Bingham or Pilsbury go under, or even Orrick. They all want to compete with NYC firms but it's hard when you are bleeding heart and don't demand more hours from associates, or get rid of underperforming associates, or cut costs on pro bono activities your wanna-be peer NYC firms never spend money on. It is not just a coincidence that Heller and Thelen and Brobeck were SF firms.

First
Asslobster
Asscheeks
Elie Sucks
TTT
Nervous T-10 1L

First let me tell you that I have been around. I was a bouncer for many years, and a Biglaw associate. If two of your rainmaker partners try to jump ship to a competitor, don't forget that it is a street fight, and there are no rules. Offer them increased equity, then take it to the ground while they consider the offer. The heel-hook is always a winner from a north-south position, or just straight ground and pound. If you can't take them down and the partners are still hell-bent on jumping to a competitor, shut the door to the conference room, lock it, create distance and grab a chair.

Those who think the street is brutal have never been in Biglaw.

21--"Google, MS, Yahoo are not dissolving or just stopping to do business like wall street"

No, but what are they going to be doing that requires high $$ legal work? Other than defending shareholder and IP litigation.

43: "San Francisco firms are so badly run that I wouldn't be surprised if ... Bingham ... go[es] under"

You may be right in general, but Bingham isn't an EsEff firm. Just like Wilmer isn't a Boston firm. You people working for acquired firms need to get used to the fact that you work in a satellite office.

Bingham is doing fine, in Jay Z we trust.

48- I could be wrong but didn't Bingham just freeze salaries and close down an office? Admittedly the news was from some other site.

My WSGR homie says they just announced layoffs and salary freeze...MoFo partners probably falling over themselves to follow.

WSGR just announced attorney layoffs, staff layoffs and salary freeze

45, how do you heel hook from North-South?

43 = Orrick troll

Guys used to give their organizations ridiculous names a la "MoFo" all the time, it was no big deal. But alas, they were adolescents.

A salary freeze would be a dream. I am one of hundreds of asociates at MoFo that are doing absolutely nothing ...except fight internally for pro-bono work and revamping marketing materials ( why??). The axe is being sharpened and things are getting pretty stressful. I wish the firm would fire a hundred or so lame partners and close all the foreign offices (i.e. black holes/money pits), then maybe ( just maybe) my alternative lifestyle gig can continue to run thru this recession. It is looking bleak. I am too young to flip burgers and too old to flip burgers -- the window is closed.

55, many practice areas are doing just fine...

Agree with 56.

55, you may be slow, but I don't think there are "hundreds" of associates at MoFo with no work. We're busy in my group, and I don't get the sense that other groups are just twiddling their thumbs.

I do agree that things are getting stressful, but it's b/c the firm is refusing simply to tell us anything about bonuses or salaries. There really is no good reason why they can't just make up their minds and tell us how much we are getting paid for the work we are doing.

I think maybe they are in a tough position on bonuses, since they set out a specific hours/performance-based bonus plan in April 2008. Unlike firms that left themselves more discretion with their bonus plans, MoFo committed itself to specific pay for a specific amount of work. I'm not a labor lawyer, but my understanding is that this is not the kind of bonus plan an employer can retroactively change at will.

And even if changing the plan now to reduce bonuses retroactively is not illegal, it would seem pretty underhanded to take away money that has already been earned by associates. So they are probably struggling with that.

I do think it is likely that they will sign on for the freeze and reduce bonuses going forward, but there has been no announcement yet.

I can assure you there are practices in MoFo that are doing just fine. I am not drinking the cool-aid.

I think it would be pathetic if MoFo did not raise, while OMM and Paul Hastings do. More importantly, the firm really needs to reward the high billers. I know I will definitely not be working as hard as I did last year if my bonuses add up to crap. And yes, there are ways to work less and still work within range of everyone else.

MoFo is doing layoffs today

I also heard the Mofo is laying off folks today.

http://abajournal.com/news/morrison_foerster_lays_off_53_lawyers_and_148_staff/

58- did you survive the cull?