ATL Contest: What’s the Best Summer Associate Event of 2009?
For the last few months, media outlets covering the legal industry — present company included — have predicted lean, mean summers for this year’s summer associates.
Well, now you summer associates are ensconced in your Biglaw offices. Welcome! (Again.)
We know that most programs are leaner in terms of the number of summer associates. Firms have brought in fewer SAs, presumably knowing they will have fewer full-time spots to fill. And we know firms have cut back on their meal budgets.
But what about the big events — the concerts, the booze cruises, the sneak previews of eagerly anticipated movies? Are they generally intact and as indulgent as in summers past?
We want to run a CONTEST — because we love contests, and because we welcome the opportunity to celebrate old-school Biglaw indulgence. We plan to crown one firm’s summer associate event the best of 2009. (And knowing us, we might have a crown of thorns for the worst event as well.)
Please send submissions to us at tips@abovethelaw.com with the entry “SA Event Contest.” Please include the firm name / office, date of the event, and a short description. You will be kept anonymous.
We’re also curious about the first week(s) of Great Recession summer associate life. Do you really feel McWined and McDined? Tell us in the comments.
Earlier: Summer Associate Event Watch: The Dark Knight at Simpson Thacher
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I'm hearing rumors that Dave Gordon has been taking the Latham NY summers to Benigans and Dennys. Is this true?
Mark my words, the summer associate event of the year will take place on July 16 at Rick's Cabaret.
Hey PE-
You're a douche!
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Playing whack a mexican on the campus of SMU.
Wait... summer associates are here? I didn't even know the program had started. Yikes.
Best Summer Associate Event of 2009: payday.
7 - lame partner trying to 'astroturf' opposition to ATL suggesting that partners have a shitty business model.
Go sob about it with Partner Emeritus, 7.
Applebees Afterwork Extravaganza
hahaha, agree with 10. Payday is better than the other stuff, cuz you can do whatever you want with the money and don't have to put on a show of enjoying the activity.
Umm, the removed comment 7 wasn't inappropriate, it was just disparaging towards ATL. What, now there is censorship here? That's crap. Just moderate those inappropriate sexual ones that have absolutely nothing to do with the article or website.
The Elephant Walk that Weil Gotshall makes all its male summers do.
The best event of the summer? An offer
Five
Five Dollar
Five Dollar Foot Looooooongs
what's an elephant walk?
what's an elephant walk?
what's an elephant walk?
best event: cowpie bingo!!
sponsored by Latham:
http://abovethelaw.com/2008/04/featured_job_survey_and_your_f.php
Best summer event?
$25 gift card for a bodega in the Lower East Side.
its called bovine bingo, cityboy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bovine_bingo
21 = 23 = redneck hick with 3500sq ft wife
Look up elephant walk on urbandictionary, friendo.
What a horrible website.
Watching video in a firm-sponsored event where bonobos have sex with each other, with all kinds of combinations (bonobos are not strictly male-female).
Kinky in HD, but not sure exactly what the firm's point was.
8 Huh?
The ship be sinking...
I summered 4 years ago at a firm in NYC and a real cool associate from there took me to a nearby massage parlor 3 times where I got an awesome table shower, full-body massage and then the best handjob of my life each time.
Ha ha, elephant walk.
The best summer event certainly would include the ass pounding contest. Guy on guy, guy on girl, girl on girl, take your pick. The winner is the person who can take it standing, sitting, or flat on the ground, without making a sound.
Evan Chesler makes all summers from Skadden wipe his ass.
OK, so I just got back from an associate lunch in NYC and saw this disurbing bus-side billboard of a woman who had "20 amputations" due to smoking.
First off, how is that F-ing possible. I mean, I know that being ellie-style obese can lead to amputation, but how does smoking get mixed in.
Second of all, after, say . .. 5 amputations, wouldnt you say, "hey, the doctors quizically suggested that they could almputate less if I stopped smoking. Maybe I'll put a nicoteen patch on my stump so that I dont have to watch a civil war field surgeon saw off another appendeg."
Thirdly, can anyone even think of 20 seperate body parts that could even be amputated assuming she still had three fingers. (On a man, I can think of 21, maybe 23. But this model was, at least ostensibly female.)
Ok, perhaps this is all off topic, but I dont like my digestion walk after Le France Tavern disturbed by signs that (a) are distgusting, (b) promote some pincko public health agenda, (c) aren't even mildly plausible. I feel no pity for that damaged goods poster woman.
Discuss.
Hey 30...Why did this associate take you to a massage parlor...why didn't he just take you back to his place?
34 -- Yea that poster is everywhere. Its gross. Just the same, your a douche.
34 -- Yea that poster is everywhere. Its gross. Just the same, your a douche.
Unmoderate 7.
moderate 32
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The mind reels at the concept of two girls pounding asses. How is that even possible?
40 -- I'll post some links from home tonight.
40 its called a strap-on, you need to get out more
@40 - Ask Jennifer Connolly.
@40
Just look at the (unmoderated) videos at Bing. You'll get the idea after entering some search terms that other posters can suggest, I'm sure.
40 -- try Female Flying Gamahouche.
43 - Huh?
Best SA Event is being allowed to actually have an SA program. Very much headed for extinction.
@46 - ASK JENNIFER CONNOLLY!
Kash:
Please moderate # 43.
Thanks
Jennifer Connolly.
Thanks for all the helpful innuendo. I think I get it now.
Nice pics of Jennifer Connolly.
Thanks for all the helpful innuendo. I think I get it now.
Nice pics of Jennifer Connolly..
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43 - What about Jennifer Connolly?
34 -- What did you have at Fraunces Tavern. I heard their filet mignon is incredible.
Also, totally with you on the dirty looking amputation wench. She is why I dont volonteer for pro-bono.
I just asked Jennifer Connolly, and she smacked me in the face. Thanks a lot, #43.
IT'S JENNIFER CONNELLY, YOU SPASTIC TARDS.
WHY IS EVERYBODY SHOUTING AT JENIFFER CONNOLI?
Jennifer and Fraunces pounding cannoli was the best summer event.
Bing thumbnail videos are the greatest invention since the wheel.
Again, so who is Jennifer Connelly?
These articles suck. But the comments on ATL make my day.
Jennifer Connelly's breast reduction made me a sad banana when it happened.
I dont even read the articles anymore. I'm just so happy to be with my true friends on the ATL comment boards. We form a real community. I love you guys, except Ellie.
The truth is, I've never felt so connected to anyone as I do to you guys.
So carry on with your Jennifer Tilly jokes and your asslobsters and your crass obnoxiousness. You make my day bearable. And if you ever end up working for me on a deal, please let me know.
Poster formerly known as Douch Patrol.
SNAP INTO A PARTNER was the best event last summer.
Agree with #62. You guys just keep on keep on trucking.
Humor is often the best medicine in the face of depressing news like mass layoffs and salary reductions.
Keep on trucking because you have brothers and sisters that need their daily giggle!
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Posting here is the closest you'll ever get to BigLaw.
Sorry about your tiny pink rejection letter, bro.
I feel for you. I mean it.
Sincerely
Douche Patrol
Best SA event I was ever at, as a summer or participating regular associate, was a HR Derby and softball game, with open keg and mixed teams (men/women, partner/SA). More conducive to a friendly and relaxed atmosphere than anything else I've experienced. Not fancy or pricey, so firms probably can still afford.
My firm did one of those technology-driven scavenger hunts in the city near the firm. I don't imagine it was particularly expensive, but it was a great team-bonding experience and a hell of a lot of fun. To me, that sort of stuff was much more rewarding than another open bar night at snooty XYZ bar. Drinking is obviously fun, but it tends to get the same twenty associates out to every single event and doesn't really help you meet the rest of the firm.
Ditto, 67, if it's the one I'm thinking of. Golf outing sucked after that.
when did this board get infested by racist, misogynstic trolls? cant you all go back to youtube and let the kind of adult people talk?
63 - too soon.
Or did you not hear about the slim jim plant explosion resulting in death (not a joke).
Skadden = Pants Party
The Sapphic Summers gave me a slim jim pants explosion.
Weil Gotshal Phallus Phalanx
Summer at a decent V50 in NYC. Lunches out are about once per week now, which I'm told is down from like three times per week. Still, we go to pretty nice places, and I'm willing to sacrifice that sort of thing if it means I'll end up with a job. I'm crossing my fingers (and getting clerkship apps ready).
We have one event per week, sometimes two. They're pretty good... the best are firm tables at benefits, definitely, especially when the B-list celebs show up.
My unit has two volunteer interns this summer. They're great guys. Not a whole lot of work for them, though, because we don't like to rush things in my office. Cases get processed when they get processed, you know? I'll take these kids out to Saladworks or a little Chinese place close to the office some days. My treat, usually. They enjoy it. They are really enthusiastic when it comes to this chess set that I am whittling, recently. I bought a stock of rosewood and maple, and I am currently in the process of making my own chess set. The board size is 18", with 2 1/2" squares, and a King height of 4". It's coming along really well.
I am in NC and one of my co-workers has a relative who was in the ConAgra explosion the other day. Very traumatic!
I am in NC and one of my co-workers has a relative who was in the ConAgra explosion the other day. Very traumatic! Relative was one of the living.