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cadwalader didn't crack the top 25 because CWT NY 05 female associates spend too much time felating the male denizens of this site

James Sockoflove?

wtf is this crap? can we have a little more info on the methodology behind the "visibility" ranking? i've never even heard of 7 or 8, and the only time i ever googled jones day it was to find out about their bonuses. no hits. jones day bonuses? anyone?

Get back to work CWT NY 05 females, these things won't suck themselves!!

DPW is not on the list and deservedly so. Our website is terrible.

#5 = oneHole with head up said hole.

Cahill should make the list based solely on all hits related to the rumored layoffs.

9 - Wait, there are rumors of Cahill layoffs? Any details?

I thought Cahill imploded around the time Brobeck did?

5 - you need to get out more.

#5 = oneHOLE

approach him with extreme caution and preferably upwind as he probably smells really bad, like camels.

Coke on Wednesday.

10 - they are just rumors at this point. According to a poster yesterday a lot of UPenn State grads have been laid off...

5, you'll have heard of Morrison & Foerster once you stop being a 0L and start law school.

I wish one of dem hot CWT NY 05 females would felate me. My secretary has even stopped giving me free hand releases after lunch. I hate this economy.

15 - Do you know when we can expect ATL to comment on the situation? Cahill layoffs would be pretty big news...

what does any of this have to do with Cadwalader?

This thread is now about our Super Bowl picks

I like the Ravens and the Eagles, with the ravens winning it all

stinks like rancid oneHOLE in here.

8, 12, 13, 16 - v10 associate. so sorry i haven't heard of your TTTs. suck it, monkeys.

Jones Day r00lz!

It should be noted that "Greenberg Traurig P.A." is a reference to the Miami office. Other offices of the firm are LLPs.

19=Mystal's Blumpkin

18 - Yeah, I'm pretty surprised at the silence from ATL on the Cahill layoff situation. Maybe they don't have any information yet?

Elie, could you try to verify whether or not there are layoffs going on at Cahill, and make some kind of post about it?

I love how people constantly rip Jones Day, but by all accounts (not including the uninformed commentary on this site), it is a very good firm that knows what it is doing.

CWT NY '05 Female Associates fellatio skills are better than most unless you go over to Hofstra and pay for a professional rub and tug.

I agree with 25. If there are layoffs going on at Cahill then I expect ATL to make some kind of comment. Surely they must know something, even if there's been no comment from the firm yet?

I agree with 24 re: said Blumpkin

No freeze at ropes - do a post on this.

i used my full bonus to purchase a new 7 series, then had a CWT NY '05 female associate felate me in the back seat.

- skadden associate

No freeze at ropes - do a post on this.

Do they have the interwebs in Texas? Are the interwebs in fact bigger in Texas?

31 - Did she spread the butt cheeks so she could smell the juicy insides?

Its freezing today in NYC.

Thank god for the freedom to NAIL my SHEEP in my cubicle if I get cold.

New 7 series = the new oneHOLE mobile

20, NAILED it!!

BITCH SPREAD DEM BUTT CHEEKS SO I CAN SEES THE JUICY INSIDES!

mlb freeze salaries for associates

mlb freeze salaries for associates

Who gives a fuck?

What a stupid list.

mlb freeze salaries for associates

26 -- Jones Day sucked a decade ago, and it sucks now. The firm is notoriously cheap and a perrenial underachiever in profitability. It has a very good Supreme Court practice in DC, and is the best place to work in Cleveland. That'[s it's only redeeming characteristics. HTH.

26 -- Jones Day sucked a decade ago, and it sucks now. The firm is notoriously cheap and a perennial underachiever in profitability. It has a very good Supreme Court practice in DC, and is the best place to work in Cleveland. That'[s it's only redeeming characteristics. HTH.

WTF doess "web presence" have to do with anything?

I work as Jones Day and think this is a stupid list.

I thought Jones Day was a Mormon Church. wtf?

Akin Gump ranked so low? Anybody heard of Tom Goldstein's SCOTUSblog?

Why isn't IceMiller on the list?

49 - i don't know what that is, but it sounds delicious. icemiller on a wednesday.

Who cares?

Do you think Wachtell is sweating their website?

What sophisticated client even visits the website?

I always thought the client alerts and fancy websites were nothing more than a way for second tier partners at third rate firms to feel better about themselves. This only confirms that fact.

Potty humor is funny and all... but I think the commenters on here are over the line. It's one thing to make a joke every once in a while. It's another to deliberately create an environment that is hostile to women, on a site that represents the profession.

We are lawyers. We are here to talk about the profession. There seems no reason why that conversation would have to include a near-constant stream of comments like the above. No one has a right to say things like this whenever they want, and most grownups learn to censor themselves in public.

A number of commenters on here are intentionally preventing women from joining the dialogue. It's offensive anywhere, but particularly on a site dedicated to the law. Please enforce comment moderation at least to the level of a non-hostile work environment.

#52 = Judge Halverson

It saddens (and frightens) me that the people that post nasty and childish things on here, and repeatedly post those same things over and over, are members of the profession.

This is the method behind the list.

The web metrics measure a variety of aspects of a firms overall web presence including:

Search Engine Positioning: How high links to a firm’s Web site appear in search engine results using relevant key words related to the firm’s specialization.

Web site Stickiness: How long visitors spend on the firm's Web site and how many pages they view.

Web site Ranking: How popular a firm's Web site is compiled through user panel, web toolbar and ISP data.

Content Ranking: How much content related to marketing and thought leadership a firm’s Web site contains - including briefing papers, newsletters, events information etc.

Web site Size: How large a firm’s Web site is in terms of number of pages.

Web site Traffic: How much traffic a firm’s Web site receives.

Social Media: How much coverage the firm receives in social media, and the level of participation by a firm’s professionals in business-oriented social networking sites such as LinkedIn.

As usual, size matters.

Whhy sooo serrioussss?

52 & 54 -- what the hell are you even talking about? Could you give a post reference so anybody has any clue?

this was obviously based on Skadden's old website. Bring the red back!

52, Why is asking you to spread your buttcheeks so we can smell the juicy insides sexist? It seems to me that you have anal issues. Describing your thighs and your butt cheeks publicly may help you get over them.

Everyone, apologize to #52, NOW or you will be GULCed by the moderator.

55 - Where do the layoffs at Cahill come into play in the ranking system?

ummmm cahill layoffs were discussed on monday

GULCED BY MODERATOR.

Wachtell is notoriously (and deservedly) absent for their website, which shows that the firm is so prestigious that they can get away with listing a few names and using what might appear to be the web design services of a college freshman enrolled in "HTML 101."

57 - 34 and 38 come immediately to mind. -54

52, Why is asking you to spread your buttcheeks so we can smell the juicy insides sexist? It seems to me that you have anal issues. Describing your thighs and your butt cheeks publicly may help you get over them.

Comment removed by moderator.

are we every going to get some info on possible layoffs at Cahill? This is getting ridiculous.

52, I would say that you have a valid point but that would be admitting that women are people and have feelings. This is just something that I cannot do.

Milbank probably has the ugliest website of all the top firms. They need a complete overhaul.

Breaking News, Dateline Washington -- It has now been confirmed that the "Butt Cheeks" poster is, in fact, a GULC 2L enrolled in the Part Time Program.

52 - Would it help if I did a line of coke off of your ass?

Is NAILING SHEEP offensive to female commenters?

Is 67 ever going to be banned.? This is a legal and not a political website. Please take your controversial and inaccurate statements elsewhere.

Jealous males? Are the females getting all the billable hours?

52, are you hot?

If yes -- then I will not mock you.

If no -- Then I will ritualistically beat you with a sack of nickels until your fem nazi mouth swells shut.

If you took your laptop outside with the old Skadden website up, it projected a red $ on the night sky.

Jones Day is a travesty of a firm.. were it not for its size it wouldn't be in the top 20 of vault. i know several people who had offers there and went to firms ranked below it on some of the charts... cheap, conservative, overhyped.

echo 58
also can confirm 77. chaaaaaaaaaaaa-ching!
[sigh]
-skadden associate

Is there something about the law that attracts idiots? Why is it that MBA or physician message boards never have this issue?

To all those who suck, suck it.

Jones Day just had a record year for revenue and profits and it paid above Cravath compensation (NB total comp which has no billables requirement) . It took on more laterals than any other firm last year and it has a no lay offs policy that it has stuck to.

The comments about lagging profitability, cheapness, etc are just crap and the JD haters should get a life instead of expressing their crap on this blog.

this is such a waste of space. this list has absolutely nothing to do with law firm health, success, profitability, or stature. who effing cares about this crap?

jeez, Elie why do you have such a pathetic vendetta against CWT?

Layoffs at JD in the wind. Supposedly Jan 30 -- both associates and staff on the block. Only time will tell . . . the no layoff policy is NOT policy, only history. Some deadwood may be chopped off soon.

78 is a fool. You throw around the tirm "conservative" as if that is a bad thing. Ask Citigroup if they wish they had been more "conservative." The people who bash JD are the people who oppose any compensation system that is not lock step. They dont want the merits to count. And JD is cheap if you suck. No dispute on that point.

78 is some douche probably fired by some third rate firm in a-non new york office

26 / 81 - You are completely right. JD is a great firm. I moved here from a Wall Street firm and am finally getting credit for the work I bring in (which has been substantial) - much better than my old firm which is on the verge of dissolution!

43 / 78 / 85 - All the JD-bashing leads me to one conclusion: you are just jealous that you do not work at JD. If this is your attitude in your current position, you better be prepared for the next round of layoffs at your firms.

26 / 81 - You are completely right. JD is a great firm. I moved here from a Wall Street firm and am finally getting credit for the work I bring in (which has been substantial) - much better than my old firm which is on the verge of dissolution!

43 / 78 / 85 - All the JD-bashing leads me to one conclusion: you are just jealous that you do not work at JD. If this is your attitude in your current position, you better be prepared for the next round of layoffs at your firms.

Not sure where this fiction started about JDs supposed no layoff policy. For the past several years they have significantly trimmed support staff. No history of visible lawyer layoffs because these are done steathily. Affected associates are generally told during the annual review that they should start to look for work elsewhere. And there are numerous examples of partners de-equitized or relegated to of counsel status. If you were to compare certain biographies on their award winning website you would see that certain lawyers who were partners in 2008 became of counsel in 2009 - and that does not apply to partners wishing to slow down as they near retirement. All of that said, JD does tend to allow deadwood (both partners and associates) to hang on much longer than most firms would tolerate. Good if you are deadwood, not so good if you are a producer, which is why JD also has problems holding on to the latter.

If you were to compare certain biographies on their award winning website you would see that certain lawyers who were partners in 2008 became of counsel in 2009

ok that is bad why

I just checked the JD site and it looks like pretty much every other law firm site out there. who cares

89 - the policy is in writing from various internal senior partners. So it's not fiction. Your posting is generally full of shit. In the first part you speak of stealth lay offs, but in the second part, you talk about them hanging onto "deadwood". Which is it? Do they get rid of underperformers or do they keep them? The truth is they do give guidance to underperformers to move on, but they don't do lay offs. The few I know of who were managed out were given nearly another year to move on. Hardly a lay off. They just made record profits and revenue, so I guess they've kept enough performers to have a good year in the midst of a massive recession.