Out of Office Memo
We’re running late to the airport, so we’re keeping it short and sweet. If you’re looking for an entertaining vacation memo, try this one or this one instead.
Your above-signed scribe — who has been writing more for these pages lately, as some of you have noticed — will be out of the office, from now until Tuesday, May 12. We’re heading off to the ancestral homeland, for the weddings of two cousins (not to each other; but those of you who have taken the New York bar know that this is acceptable in the Empire State).
Although internet access is plentiful in the Philippines, we’ve decided to go “off the grid” for this vacation. We won’t be checking email or voicemail. We won’t be on AIM or Gchat. We won’t be on Facebook or Twitter (but feel free to friend us or follow us, and we’ll accept the request or return the follow when we get back to NYC).
Please send all tips, questions, complaints, requests for comment moderation, and suggestions for Non-Sequiturs to tips@abovethelaw.com. The tips feed goes to both Elie and Kash, who will keep you enlightened and entertained over the next two weeks. You can also reach Elie by telephone: 212-334-1871, ext. 3. For advertising information, see here.
Maraming salamat! See you in May.
Earlier: Elie’s Vacation Memo
How Does A Turkey Write A Vacation Memo?
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FIRST to wish Lat safe travels!
What's the over/under on how long it take MysTTTal to completely sink this ship in Lat's absence? 5 day? Maybe a full week?
Lat, are the weddings in El Nido (as the photo suggests)? Have fun!
First cousins can marry in New York? And you call southerners the backwards ones....
Your former mayor (Giuliani) married his cousin, didn't he?
Where was that picture taken?
5 - That was his SECOND cousin.
I do not understand why this post is necessary. Isn't Elie in charge of ATL?
Lat posting this is kind of some implicit message "Don't blame anything crazy that happens this week on me; it was the guy I hired to run the sites fault!"
And I bet a guy like David Lat lasts about 1 day without checking his email, freaking out, and getting a blackberry.
6 - Looks like the picture is from El Nido (as noted by 3):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:El_nido.jpg
8 - The post is necessary because some of us prefer to send our tips directly to Lat (rather than the tips email).
Lat,
Will you obtain some grammar lessons for Elie while you are gone? I'm sure you can find a book that will be helpful in the airport- usually they have a "kid's section."
Any help, for all of our sakes, would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
11 - you consider this snark? Stale subject matter, poor to exceptionally poor delivery.
12 - agree. 11 fail.
6:
El Nido is a fantastic place to visit; the limestone formations are beautiful. Nothing like taking a boat out among em. The beach isn't as nice as Boracay though... And I'd recommend a plane ride in to El Nido from Manila instead of going to Puerto Princesa first and then riding hungover as all hell for 8 hours in a packed bus on a dirt road with a baby throwing up on your lap. But that's just me.
-3
Is Lat's use of this image copyright infringement? I don't know, anyone a copyright attorney?
FYI, the exchange rate is approximately 50 PhP : $1 (today it's 48.31 : $1)
Rooms at El Nido currently going for about $375/night. I'm on my way.
Lat's got swine flu. This vacation is a cover story to prevent panic.
Am I 420th?
[Takes a puff]
--Michael Phelps (14 time Olympic gold medal winner)
Please edit the offensive comment regarding the Empire State.
fair use mothafuckas
that picture is so gay.
15:
I would think not, but the owner of the copyright to the photograph reasonbly relied on the fact that the copyright would not be infringed. It's almost certain that the copyright holder has a promissory estoppel claim. HTH.
It's too hot in NYC today. Please moderate.
This has got to be one of the most arrogant posts I’ve seen on ATL. As if we need to know when Lat will be on vacation …
It's cool. Lat pretty much exemplifies all that is wrong with the legal field. This flamer woulda never have been admitted to the bar fifty years ago.
24- I agree. Lat is pathetic.
25 nailed it. 24 and 26 are bitter suckups who are nervously slaving away in their biglaw offices, always at the beck and call of their partners/masters. Enjoy your life, you mindless fungible drones, while Lat REALLY enjoys his!
Those grapes are pretty sour, eh?
not sure it was so wise to post Elie's phone number lulz
25--wow? you need to take a long look at yourself.
Barely legal girls are cheap and plentiful in the Philippines - go get 'em Lat ... oh, wait ...
the media kit is awesome. try to open it in firefox, the browser that most advertising execs use.
El Nido. Gorgeous place.
Lat is doing a side trip to India to outsource Mystal.
Am I the only one who will go to work tomorrow with a little less bounce in my step? Bea Arthur, you will be missed.
31 - some of the graphics are too pixilated for an ad sell sheet. especially for an online operation. they need to have someone go back and re-render a more high resolution version of some of these images. generally though, its pretty well put together. it could be a bit better though.
31, it's a PDF... why would it matter if you opened in a firefox based browser plugin or any other?
You sir, are a dumbass.
THIRTY SEVENTH
Lat:
Come back to us now before it's too late. When Swine Flu goes pandemic you won't be able to travel back here. The mortality rate in healthy 20-40 year olds is at 7%, there's no way airlines will be open come mid-May. So please come back now!
NYC to 12 Monkeys!
Does anyone know if the author of the Thanksgiving memo (linked to in this post) was fired?
Solo guy -
Aren't you late for a dog s**t real estate closing?
40 -- No, but his Thanksgiving plans did not materialize as he hoped.
@41: Thanks for the Monday morning LOL. But, you see, my clients are all larger corporations. And I pull in more than you ever will as an associate (even with your cherished-but-vanishing "bonus"). And my typical workday includes these tasty frozen margaritas.
Now go answer your phone. That's a partner calling with another 'urgent' weekend project for you. Beeyotch!
--sent from my oceanside Blackberry
What is wrong with real estate closings?
UVA2L
Very funny, Lat, giving us as Elie's phone number the number to an Arby's. How has no one picked up on that?
What's all this pretentious "we" bullshit? When did Lat become royalty?
That's nothing new. Lat has been using the royal "we" for years.