OMG. Law Firm in Memphis Offers Yoga.
Not all firms are cutting back on the perks. The Memphis Commercial Appeal has an enthused article today about the perks to be had at the small Tennessee firm of Burch, Porter & Johnson.
The article, “Legal firm helps its employees find essential balance,” talks about the firm’s AMAZING perks:
Something refreshing for body and soul is happening within the 119-year-old walls that house a venerable Memphis law firm.Refreshing as a good yoga session. Strengthening as a brisk core-body workout. And uplifting as guest speakers whose work has made Memphis a better place.
Sweet. You can work out at work! And they friggin’ bring in guest speakers at lunch. Wow! Do they have as much free coffee as you can drink too?
If you thought firm life in Memphis couldn’t compare to Biglaw in the big city, think again:
That quest for balance explains why Leah Hillis strolled down the hallways on a recent lunch hour wearing workout clothes for a yoga session.The associate attorney headed for the firm’s large, third-story storeroom overlooking Court Square… Other exercise classes to strengthen the core-body are Mondays and Fridays in the same unfinished space, which holds files of old cases, surplus furniture and cleaning supplies.
The classes are inexpensive: $4 for yoga and $3 for the core-body sessions.
Only $4 to work out in the storage closet!
If that’s not your cup of tea, you can spend lunch with a guest speaker during one of the firm’s “fireside chats” in the Crump Room. A recent speaker mentioned in the article is a Holocaust survivor. Fun times.
Law and life: Legal firm helps its employees find essential balance [Memphis Commercial Appeal]




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I win!
Sotomayor is a RACIST.
definitely made me laugh while reading.
bar review sucks.
Listening to a Holocaust survivor definitely gives perspective when you're depressed over $250,000 in debt, no job, hectoring calls from Sallie Mae, and repeatedly posting Dune references on an anonymous legal blog.
Oh and your blood pressure soaring through the roof due to excess Ramen intake.
I did it! I am fairly new to Above the Law and I have already achieved the pinnacle of ATL success: being first.
- 1
5 = : (
5 is a racist.
actually, I was first.
- 1
actually, I was first.
- 1
Obama = : (
: ( = FAIL
So,
Obama = FAIL
This is gayer than the theme music for Hardcastle and McCormic in the second season.
In the first season, during the opening credits, they had that cool song about driving fast cars. Then they changed the song in the second season to some stupid song about being two good friends--but not in a threatening/gay way (yeah, sure gay song!). Luckily they changed it back for the third and final season.
Millionaire? I'm a billionaire, dammit!
- Donald Crump
11
The actor who portrayed the judge in Hardcastle & McCormick was supposed to be a pedo, wasn't he?
Cue Bendini, Lambert & Locke joke(s) in 3...2...1...
Sotomayor vs Halverson
Heavyweight Title Bought Tonight, 9PM, in the Pit of PUDDING!
They should host a debate pitting the Holocaust survivor vs. a Holocaust denier vs. Survivor, the band from the '80s
13
How DARE you besmirch the memory of Brian Keith! He was the dad in the original “Parent Trap” by Disney, for crying out loud! With people like you making false accusations, it is not wonder Brian Keith chose to end his own life on June 24, 1997.
Obama on offering yoga: It's now or never.
Minorities are often funny looking and smell bad.
Evan "Skadden Wipes My Ass" Chesler
i pounded myself in the ass while doing yoga.
17
That rumor probably arises from his unusually close relationship with his "nephew" on the TV show, Family Affair.
I guess these clowns have never heard of the "Billing Lawyer" yoga position.
Downward facing secretary.
Poundus Femalia Rumpus
DELAWARE RULES!!!
Latham NY never should have laid off all those first years. There was barely any work and the partners were handing it out generally based on who they liked on a personal basis. The 4 hottest chicks in the class were pretty much the only first years getting regular work. How would they know who to fire? They should've at least waited for them to have a chance to prove themselves. Lathamed first years are getting killed in this market. Lathaming them was just evil.
DELAWARE RULES!!!
Do they offer departing associates a scuba diving trip??
When do you think was the last time PE got laid? I'll put the over under at the Vietnam War
This is gayer than 8 guys fucking 9 guys.
In Memphis, an unfinished storage closet qualifies as an "upscale gym." (Unless the cleaning supplies have spilled.)
28 - PE is a 1L who has probably never been laid.
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We get it.
Latham sucks. You should start a new web site -- www.lathamsucks.com. That ought to be a good activity for you to put on your resume while you're looking for jobs.
Next!
32, i will vent about latham wherever i want. if you don't like it don't read it. next!
Tim Tebow could be pounding any one of you in the ass right now. Just think about that. Do it. Do it.
21:
Yes, I can see how that could confuse people. Certainly the theme song I referenced in my original post (11), and having a much younger costar in Hardcastle and McCormick didn’t help his reputation either.
What self-respecting person or company would hire any of you nitwits to be their attorney?
23=funny stuff.
I would rather ass pound a nice law babe than play yogaman over lunch, but that's just me.
Hey 36, first yourself!
- everyone but 36
I meant "fist" yourself.
Thanks,
Right, everyone first or fist yourself except 36.
Thanks for proving his/her point, 39/40.
Hmmmm.
It seems to me that a similarly sized Memphis firm with above market salaries and great perks was the villain in Grisham’s The Firm.
If it sounds too good to be true, might it be Bendini, Lambert, and Locke reincarnate?
Al of you Mitch McDeere’s out there with crushing student loan obligations had better exercise caveat emptor.
Naw, I have to stop reading to fall asleap….
Hey Kash, sneer some more. It's really becoming of you. If you don't think something is newsworthy, don't post it on a blog.
I'm with 43. Standards are different away from biglaw, and yoga in the storage room seems like a fun idea in a quirky way.
I have a better plan!
Where does Section 90 apply?
43 = Burch, Porter & Johnson Yoga Instructor
1-32= racists
- Al Franken
i guess you can be snarky when you are an omg-way-up-and-coming writer on a super awesome. kash, you are so funny and cute!
Yep, I'm with 43 and 44 - this post is just snotty, and I would totally be going to the "storage closet" yoga classes if I worked there. The ridiculously expensive upscale gyms that are so popular among flabby lawyers are one of my big pet peeves - who cares where you work out?
Yep, I'm with 43 and 44 - this post is just snotty, and I would totally be going to the "storage closet" yoga classes if I worked there. The ridiculously expensive upscale gyms that are so popular among flabby lawyers are one of my big pet peeves - who cares where you work out?
Yoga smoga. SNR cuts staff salaries but keeps 2k a week bar night throughout their US offices. Now that's a law firm who appreciates balance.
I agree that this post sounds really arrogant. Very disappointing that you'd poo-poo a law firm trying to do good things when so many firms are doing terrible things.
The upside? 20, 22 & 23 made me lol. Good thing I'm the first one at work.
I've litigated against Burch Porter & Johnson. Good attorneys, nice people.
at BFKN in Chicago, our weekly yoga class is 1) free and 2) taught in our top-floor lake view gathering area. score one for the little guy.
Frost Brown Todd's office in Louisville, KY has yoga...in a recently renovated conference room.
--FlawLESS