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Enough With The Scare Tactics

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Apparently, some of you have been receiving emails from your firm telling you not to communicate with “the media” about all the things going on around the office. Thanks, by the way, for sending us those emails.

It seems like some firms want to keep their layoffs really, really quiet. Evidently, these firms believe that not talking about it will simply make it go away. Proskauer, for instance, decided to lay off 23 people on Wednesday (we understand that individual associates were told yesterday and today). It’s not enough that the firm refuses to talk about it (not to us, not to the National Law Journal, not to the ABA Journal), now the firm is trying to scare the people.

Kirkland (somewhat obviously) is sending around all sorts of emails “warning” people not to talk to the media — though trolling in the comments is apparently just fine.

But we don’t believe the hype. Nobody (that we know of) has been fired for tipping to ATL (and we’re pretty sure we’d know if it happened).

Since we’ve gotten a lot of emails asking us about our confidentiality policy, this seems like a good time to clear some things up. Some important points about confidentiality after the jump.


1). We protect the anonymity of our sources. We simply do not release the personal information of anyone who emails us. It’s a pretty easy policy to follow: they don’t ask, we don’t tell.

2). If, in some ridiculous universe a firm spiked the ATL water cooler with sodium pentathol, we couldn’t reveal personal information for most of our tipsters because we don’t have it. With the proliferation of private email accounts, dummy email accounts, and shared IP addresses, most of the time we don’t have the information anybody would be looking for.

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3). If you are just terrified of emailing [email protected], remember that there are lots and lots of ways that you can contact us. You can send something to gmail ([email protected]). You can text us. You can IM us (on AIM I’m sophistnyc, on Gchat I’m sophistnyc). All of us at Above the Law are on Facebook (and you can send tips without friending us, we won’t get offended). Lat is already on Twitter (and soon we should have an Above the Law Twitter feed). And, there’s always the telephone (212-334-1871). Leave a voice mail.

Information yearns to breathe free.

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