Latham NY laid off more than half its first years without even a days notice.

Latham LA laid off a third of the first years after months of reassuring them that they had a place at the firm.

Don't believe anything these dickbags say.

I wonder if hiring some image and marketing consultants would improve my application to the House Harkonnen to be Siridar-Regent of Arrakis?

You can't put lipstick on a pig Dave Gordon. The fact is, you fired 45% of Latham NY Associates because you grossly overhired and failed to diversify the office.
You even fired half the first years after months of reassuring them.

You=Pig no lipstick can save

I'm not a major grammar nazi type, but "District Court of Appeals" isn't just missing "of Columbia"; it should be changed to clarify that the court was the DC Circuit. Even DC Court of Appeals wouldn't do it, since that's different from the DC Circuit. Otherwise, further signs of improvement from Eliza.

More on weird Quinn soon-to-be-fired kid?

First to say yes YOU CAN put lipstick on a sheep and then nail it!

"District US Court of Appeals"???

6 - The only reason it looks like she's improving is because she's stopped using possessives and those really confusing apostrophes.

7 - See the comment threads from last night, the kid was both outed and (apparently) fired, he's no longer in the Quinn directory. Curious too, that the Quinn website has no mention of the Redskins case either.

SMU is the Yale of Texas.

Offering clients coffee?! Wow - great advice from those consultants. Offering coffee or sending get well cards to clients is not going to change the course of this shake-out. There will be seismic change because of the lack of legal work and overabundance of attorneys.

My V20 firm got rid of business casual.

11 - probably because the victory was the result of poor lawyering on the other side, not good lawyering by Quinn.

There is nothing wrong with requiring my secretary to wear chaps.

Wow, Eliza: Thanks for the link to Toobin's article on Roberts in the New Yorker. Otherwise, we might not have known about it, unless we read Kashmir's ENTIRE POST devoted to the article yesterday.

WTF is a "District US Court of Appeals"???

Eliza doesn't read AboveTheLaw....! And he/she probably won't read the comments either.

The people who rise to the top of the management committees of law firms are beyond hope. A couple of business classes aren't going to suddenly enlighten them. They are horrible human beings, completely irrational and illogical, and think they're smarter than everyone else so won't pay attention to the management lessons.

Unless and until the law again becomes a profession rather than a business, these lawyers are going to be screwing up their firms forever.

20 = Quinn dude?

I think you mean the "D.C. Circuit" not the "District US Court of Appeals."

Wow - thanks for the link to the New Yorker article! Oh wait, Kash did an HUGE write-up on it yesterday. Score one for ATL.

21:

No, this is what #20 would look like if written by the Quinn dude:

not to out crunch the crunchies or out munch the munchies (though i *do* like those dunkin doughnut "munchkins" (yumyumyum) eek!) the people who rise to the top of the management committees of law firms are (like me) beyond hope (if by "hope" you mean, in my case, that cute little town near my daddy's private ski "cottage" (more in the gilded-age sense of the term "cottage" rather than the "ski shack" sense of the term) but, in the case of lawyers on management committees, "hope" is understood in the more normal sense (like "that guy crushed under the buffalo is beyond hope, though maybe I could use his nose as a thimbal)) a couple of business classes aren't going to suddenly enlighten them. they should meditate instead. eek!

- 20

Give Eliza a break.

She's only a college kid ....from Harvard