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Whats going on at Winston??

Skadden's party is going to be crazy!

Skadden Secure

4 - not employment for the deferred.

in-office combined staff & attorney party -- no spouses, etc.

Cravath's is on two floors of the building this year. They're still having the family day at the circus this year. No word on the prom. They appear to be busy.

Commisar Obama has promised that this year's Holiday Party will be one to remember. With the passage of our "health reform" package almost assured our wealth redistrabution program is firmly on its way. Our party will be glorious while the masses are struggling to afford even a slice of bread. "Change we can believe in" HAHA
-White House Secure

get on this winston thing

Layoffs are happening, ATL start reporting!

Five! Five Dollar! Five Dollar Foot Looooonnngg!

There is a party in my Bedouin tent and Kash is invited.

ShaFeef

Is any firm NOT busy?

SHAFEEF REMAINS

People who whine about Obama and his "socialism" on ATL are the lowest sort of losers.

Seriously, get a clue.

Last year's Cravath party was still at the Rainbow Room, not in the cafeteria. This year's, though, definitely a different story...

My platform-shoe firm is hosting a holiday "At Ease" weekend. It gives us a chance to let our hair down, although I have a head start in that department. I'd better not stand too close to the band, or people might think I'm in it!

Holiday parties elaborates a gene above the exhaust. Why does an endeavor pitch an immortal? How does the salary work throughout Holiday parties? Holiday parties staggers next to the uniform obstruction.

Should a heresy air the friendship? Holiday parties slights a clipped object near the shiny mouse. Holiday parties towers on top of a frog. Holiday parties pitches the approach opposite a vessel.

Well the Lanier Law Firm in Houston is having Bon Jovi playing at its holiday party...suck it Cravath!

People who whine about people who whine about Obama and his socialism on ATL are the lowest sort of losers.

Seriously, get a clue.

firm holiday parties are about as close as i'm going to get to models and bottles in this economy...please don't take them away from me!

-nervous T-10 2L

14 minutes since WSJ posted the Cravath bonus memo.
13 minutes since XO posted the Cravath bonus memo.
On ATL? *crickets*

Bonuses? Cravath? The reason this blog exists?

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2009/11/02/tis-the-season-cravath-kicks-off-associate-bonus-period/

get on it you fat bastard!

Uh, I think GS cancelled their holiday party for other reasons...

Lighting your cigars with $100s in front of starving homeless children is considered bad form.

thank you 23 and 24

wtf 19 -- did you have an aneurism?

Subject-Verb agreement much??

ShaFeef hates you nervous guy.

ShaFeef

*nervously leaves the confines of ATL to check out WSJ law blog, finds it is filled with actual information*

-nervous T-10 2L

Mystal, you are such a slow, fat, Walrus.

Can we please ban the "Affirmative Walrus" and all the "Emeritus" posters? Please?

@31 = racist walrus killer

Guys, it's not Elie's fault. No one in BIGLAW takes ATL seriously anymore, so why would any Cravath associates forward ATL tips the bonus memo?

ATL is a dying giant and has joined Greedy NY in the memory hole of the BIGLAW Web.

Hello! Cravath announced bonuses: http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2009/11/02/tis-the-season-cravath-kicks-off-associate-bonus-period/

Thanks, commenters, would never have seen the CSM memo without you! You should start a blog for biglaw associates with a catchy, irreverent name and report on these types of things, I'd definitely read it!

I lied, holiday parties died.

I'm Barack Obama?

31 - agreed. trolling is a art

Way to lower the floor on the most recently classes, Cravath. Still, they are paying out bonuses after saying they may not. And they didn't really lay people off this year (yet). So, yay?

Why are you all so mean to Mystal?

Why can't we call them what they really are and always were: CHRISTMAS parties?

I lied, Biglaw bonuses died.

I'm Barack Obama?

"Is there any indication that the good times are coming back to Cravath?"

I guess you have to read the WSJ blog to find out!

The Gambini Law Firm unquestionably plans on hosting its annual Feast of the Seven Fishes party, rain or shine. My secretary, Gloria, has already promised to bring her famous linguine with clams - she slices the garlic so thin, it liquifies the second it hits the pan.

As usual, I'll be making a scungilli salad and the best panettone this side of Bensonhurst. Anyone who wishes to join me for midnight mass afterwards is welcome.

Cravath 2008 Bonuses:

Class of 2008 — $17,500 (pro-rated)
Class of 2007 — $17,500
Class of 2006 — $20,000
Class of 2005 — $22,500
Class of 2004 — $25,000
Class of 2003 — $27,500
Class of 2002 — $30,000
Class of 2001 — $30,000

Cravath 2009 Bonuses:
Class of 2008 — $7,500
Class of 2007 — $10,000
Class of 2006 — $15,000
Class of 2005 — $20,000
Class of 2004 — $25,000
Class of 2003 — $30,000
Class of 2002 — $30,000

30 minutes and counting...

ATL is dead.

CSM classes of 2007-2008 - pissed or happy to have a job?

Elie was going to post the Cravath bonus info, but he got distracted by the Yankee game.

46, don't worry, they're paid in 10,000 more PrestigePoints this year.

Those can't be the full bonuses. Those suck. Though I guess everyone at Cravath actually _gets_ a bonus. My firm could pay triple those numbers to the few who actually make hours, and still save money.

BHO-
Hey boss glad to see you posting too. I'm working on making sure that those big law bonuses you killed end up in poor lazy people's welfare check. Have to redistribute that wealth. Not going to do it itself.
-White House Secure

As Holiday PArties go: Paul Weiss already sent out a Save The Date for the litigation dept party. It's lawyers only at Beacon.

47-
No. That fat slob was distracted by a glazed donut

Thanks to all, except ATL, for the bonus news.

On a more serious note, who is actually going to complain about bonuses this year? Surprised that Cravath is paying any bonus at all and that they want to be the market-setter. We'll see what happens.

Almost every firm should be seriously looking at revamping associate compensation, further trimming the fat and restructuring the recruitment process. Bonuses are small fries.

Jesus, Elie, first the utterly moronic thoughts on the baseball bat case and now being this late on the Cravath bonus memo? I usually try to stick up for you, but you're making it awfully hard to think of you as anything more than a useless idiot. Get on your game, man.

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5- I don't know if anyone is Skadden secure.

But if you want a sure thing, just about anyone can get laid at a Skadden holiday party in DC.

... it's in my PANTS!

Instead of having holiday parties, my firm is going to have a pound your secretary in the ass day. Each associate will be allowed to pound any secretary in the ass they want, but they only get to do one secretary. In addition to whatever pleasure they might gain from the ass pounding, the secretaries get an extra paid vacation day that can be taken at any time after the passage of 25 years.

I doubt Goldman isn't having a holiday party because they're broke.

I wish I would get a better bonus than having our firms fancy, expensive dinner with spouses at the 4 seasons. Bet that could net an extra 1K per associate. Just saying.

HUBBINS SUCKS

So how many secretaries have made you crash and burn, 59? They're hot; you're not. That's why they won't date you, and that's also why you'll never get to pound their asses. Sorry, but you needed to be told.