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Winter Storm Warning: D.C. and Philly Firm Closings?

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I’m not a meteorologist, or a groundhog, but it looks like D.C. and Philadelphia are totally screwed today. A D.C. tipster called it a “snowpocalypse.” (Judge for yourself – the image above links to Weather.com’s live radar map.)
Our own Kashmir Hill — who has lived in D.C. and, inexplicably, liked it — claims that the blizzard will shut the city down.
So, which firms are closing, and how are people planning to spend their day?


We haven’t gotten word about specific firm closings, but we know that the federal government is making plans for the weather. A tipster reports:

[T]he federal government is doing a 4 hour “early dismissal” which means most everyone in my building got here at 6 a.m. so we could be out by 10 a.m. before the snow hits.

Given our national deficit, this could be a test run for future federal spending austerity.
In Philly, a friend reports:

[My firm] is ignoring the snow, but I’ll be damned if I’m shoveling snow outside my sh***y apartment all weekend. You know what that means. Will you be joining me at the Borgata? If you leave now you’ll beat the snow to AC.

I wish buddy. Play full odds on the pass line, throw $20 two ways on the hard 6 and 8 when you are feeling it, if you play the field I’ll kill you.
Are other Biglaw types taking a snow day? Do you have firm permission to play hooky? Let us know in the comments.

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