Our Vault 100 series is winding down. We hope that the insiders have enjoyed the opportunity to brag (or to vent) about their firms. And that the curious have appreciated insights into life at various firms in the top 100.

Here is the next bunch up for discussion (with their prestige scores in parentheses):

81. Crowell & Moring LLP (4.763)
82. Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP (4.754)
83. Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP (4.735)
84. Arent Fox PLLC (4.726)
85. McGuireWoods LLP (4.697)
86. Venable LLP (4.676)
87. Dorsey & Whitney LLP (4.575)
88. Dickstein Shapiro LLP (4.554)
89. Baker & Hostetler (4.531)
90. Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, L.L.P (4.503)

Are the following statements true or false?

Okay, you know the drill.

Earlier: Vault 100 Open Threads - 2009

We continue our series of posts about summer associate misadventures. If you have an anecdote you'd be willing to share, please check out the submission guidelines, and then email us.

We're continuing with our theme of summer associates as superheroes. Move over, X-Men; make way for the X-Summers!!!

1. Superhero name: The Nekkid Sleeper
2. Special power: Drunken, semi-nude slumbering.
3. Summered: Baker & Hostetler, Cleveland, summer 2001
4. Claim to fame: From a Midwestern tipster:

"After a Saturday-night firm event, followed by a non-firm-sponsored night of drinking, The Nekkid Sleeper found himself stranded downtown without a car. It was after the rapid (light rail line) shut down for the evening, and he didn't have enough money for a cab, so he decided he'd crash in his office at the firm."

"One problem: That summer, the firm didn't have enough office space for all the summers, so every other week, the summers would have to rotate offices. This particular week, The Nekkid Sleeper's office was a cube in the firm's library. The Nekkid Sleeper stumbled up to the firm library, found a sofa, and passed out in a drunken haze. It was hot and humid, so he unconsciously (or so he claimed) removed his shirt sometime in the middle of the night."

"All was well until 6 a.m. Sunday, when a female partner who had a big upcoming trial wandered into the firm library to get a book -- and saw what she thought was a half-nude hobo, sprawled out on the firm's nice sofa...."

5. What happened next: "Rumor was that the incident happened about a week before the mid-summer reviews were to take place, and he got a stern lecture about inappropriate behavior... Word on the street was that he got an offer, but took a clerkship and then never returned to the firm."

(The usual rules apply. Please don't name the Nekkid Sleeper or speculate about his identity. Thanks.)

Earlier: Prior ATL coverage of summer associates (scroll down)