First, you punks.

If he had checked the box, he would have been admitted.

How is it a dig at UVA Law?

I was accepted by HLS, but I went to the higher ranked Cooley instead.

Elie was accepted at HLS... then it seems never passed the bar. Or fifth grade grammar and spelling. Or seventh grade typing. But I digress...

AA FTW!

5, Harvard is ranked #1 on the Cooley rankings. I think you mean you got into the TTT known as Stanford?

Mystal threatened to eat the Dean of HLS, and was therefore accepted.

Where is Elie?

Can we get a post either by, or about, MysTTTal? Personally, I liked him, but botching the Quinn e-mail should be grounds for termination since it might discourage other juicy disclosures.

ellie ellie ELLIE! Welcome to Ellieville!!!

So he deferred UVA Law and decided to never attend law school anywhere because he loved his job so much...yea, that's a huge dig at UVA Law.

9

Fired?

@9 - Mystal is drugged, naked and bound upside down on my bed.

D. Lat

Elie posted a lot about big law layoffs. Lat wanted a big law type managing editor. Through Elie's reporting, Lat learned there was a glut of unemployed big law attys that were willing to become blog editors. Lat decided to hire a better blogger for a lower wage. Elie's reporting on layoffs helped lead to his termination.

Discuss.

WHERE IS ELIE

slow news day...

BigLaw prestige whores, take note: Zucker declined to attend law school, and is now CEO of NBC Universal. Which means he makes more money than all of you, and is more famous than any of you.

99% of you will never make as much money as your clients, nor will you ever receive the fame or respect they receive. You are condemned to forever toil in their shadows.

Elie is having a beer with Lat at the White House.

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This is news? Top businessmen have always made more money than top lawyers. They're the people who hire us to take care of their problems. Anyone who believes they have what it takes to make it to the top of the business world and is primarily motivated by money shouldn't go into law. Period.

At least a week without a UVA dig from ATL, so why not fabricate one?

18, but the law is such a noble and intellectual profession so it beats a CEO job...oh wait, what's that? a monkey could perform nearly all biglaw tasks? err. shit.

"I was accepted by HLS, but I went to the higher ranked Cooley instead."

Cooley Law School! Now with four great campuses to serve its 600+ student classes in the economic powerhouse that is Michigan! (Not kidding, folks.)

Billboards and radio ads blanket the state. Beauty schools have more class than Cooley law school.

#20, did you draw that with your pants around your ankles and an erection?

20 is racist. Please moderate.

For realz

20 is the best comment EVER.

It was the greatest thing that ever happened to him because:
(1) He wasn't implicated in criminal conspiracies with corporate misers;
(2) He could point to a real career, rather than an LSAT score, as an example of his success;
(3) He actually learned the value of working for a living, rather than relying upon incestuous FTT BigLaw revolving-door policies to become an overpaid corporate mercenary contributing nothing meaningful to society; and
(4) Because he wasn't in a BigLaw overseen by incompetent FTT hacks who couldn't run a kid's lemonade stand, let alone a national law firm, he still is employed.

Res Ipsa is awesome! :-D :notworthy

Ban 20.

I guess it's a dig at UVA Law that he would have gone to HLS right away, but deferred UVA? I guess you could take that position, but really, ATL just hates UVA and wants to insult it somehow.

18: I can quit BigLaw, but you will never have a real degree.

20, I'm dying over here...hahahaha

32, I have two "real degrees" and I am working on my third. Also, I am not a lawyer.

Did Elie pass the bar exam?

Why is ATL not covering this? Is he an actual attorney?

Comment 20 is the reason why I take an austere and hardline approach towards associates. This type of puerile behavior is indeed representative of this generation of attorneys. The artwork and dialogue is offensive beyond measure.

Things that should disappear from the face of the earth:

-People who coment on whether Elie pass the NY bar
-Birthers
-Fat women who wear bolero jackets

All useless!

34

"and working on a third"? It seems you aren't much else either.

38--I'm a doctoral student. And I can tell you that PhD students are far less douchey than law students or BigLaw drones such as yourself.

Enjoy your weekends of doc review and weight gain, loser.

39 - why are reading ATL?

I don't see the dig at UVA Law. Harvard is a compelling proposition, but the fact that he liked his job and didn't want to go to law school is a dig at UVA. The comment about toiling away in a law library seems to mean that he would have been so engrossed by legal practice, he would have stayed in it. I don't think he'd think if he'd gone to UVA, that 25 years later, he'd only be qualified to be toiling in a law library.

And Robert Wright, Zucker's predecessor as Chairman of NBC Universal is a UVA Law alum. So I fail to see the logic here, Lat.

39: A Ph. D. student? Seriously? Making fun of lawyers on the fame and fortune standard?

I may have the late nights, but you make sure I keep earning -- and stay thin -- every time you pour me that skinny no-whip latte.

Thanks!