Email Scandals
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Email Scandals, Law Schools, listserv, Ridiculousness
Law Students Tangle Over Prestige, Machine Guns, and Books; Hilarity Ensues
The best time for law school emails is right before spring semester finals. People have been stressed for an entire year and things are just about to get worse, so you see law students just breaking down. The Crimson DNA affair came to light last April; hopefully we’ll get something good this year too. The […] -
Biglaw, Email Scandals, Technology
ATL Public Service Announcement: Watch Out for 'Brian Willmer' of 'Willmer Hale'
Is “phishing” running rampant throughout the legal community? A few weeks ago, Professor Charles Nesson of Harvard Law School fell victim to a phishing scam. As the HLS Help Desk helpfully explained at the time, “Phishing emails are fraudulent email messages claiming to be from a legitimate source that ask you to send confidential information […] - Sponsored
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Comment of the Day, Email Scandals, Quote of the Day, Sex, Sex Scandals
Comment of the Day: Gavel Bang, Indeed
Yesterday we posted a racy email recounting a male associate’s supposed one-night stand with a female partner. The general consensus was that the story was fiction. Here’s more support for that view, from our Comment of the Day….
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Bad Ideas, Biglaw, Email Scandals, Labor / Employment, Screw-Ups, Sex, Sex Scandals, Sexual Harassment
A Racy (But Fake?) Email About An Associate's One-Night Stand With A Married Female Partner
Last week, we started hearing about an amazing email making the rounds. In this email message, a male associate at a large law firm allegedly described, in excruciating detail, a supposed sexual encounter with a married female partner at the firm. Apparently the raunchy email was making like an STD and going viral within the […] -
Email Scandals, Law Professors, Law Schools, Orin Kerr, Technology
HLS Potpourri: Professor Nesson Victim of Phishing, While Students Fish for Constitutional Protection from the TSA
First of all, Happy Chanukah. May your candles burn bright. It is certainly possible that some lowly internet hacker was trying to take advantage of some holiday compassion when he or she hacked the email of Harvard Law School Professor Charles Nesson. Nesson is a well-known figure in “internet and the law” circles — as […] -
Akin Gump, Biglaw, Billable Hours, Email Scandals, Partner Issues, Rudeness
Akin Gump Partner Pens Email Fantasy About Firing Delinquent Time Keepers
Nothing says “Biglaw” quite like an old-fashioned partner threat. Biglaw partners, a self-important bunch if there ever was one, generally do little to mask their huge egos. But when those egos express themselves in the form of threats against underlings, well, that’s when you learn why people get paid $160,000 right out of school. You […] -
Biglaw, Email Scandals, Partner Issues, Screw-Ups
Skadden Partner Accidentally Emails Confidential Evaluations to Entire Department
Those of you who have been in the legal profession long enough remember the tale of Jonas Blank. While working as a summer associate at Skadden, he inadvertently sent an irreverent email, intended for a single friend, to the firm’s entire underwriting group (partners included). Whoops. But the firm was forgiving of young Jonas. He […] -
Drinking, Email Scandals, listserv, Sex
Northwestern Law Student Emails Hand-Job Offer to Entire Law School
You know how cars can be equipped with an ignition interlock device that prevents the engine from being started if the driver is intoxicated? Can we get one of those thingies for the personal computer, Blackberry, or any other device people can use to send email? Because I’m pretty sure a Northwestern Law student could […] - Sponsored
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Alston & Bird, Document Review, Email Scandals, Technology
Dude, You're Getting A Dell... Runaround?
Discovery disputes, like a certain other thing, happen. But it’s not often that these happenings make the pages of the New York Times. An article on the front page of the business section reports: Dell has been accused of withholding evidence, including e-mails among its top executives, in a lawsuit over faulty computers it sold […] -
Associate Advice, Biglaw, Email Scandals, Summer Associates
Summer Associate Email Etiquette: The Four Commandments?
There are many big questions in life. For example, email etiquette. “To” or “dear” or just a name? “Best” or “best regards” or “sincerely” or just your initials? Instant response or tasteful 15-minute delay? Like many of the big questions, it’s hard to come up with definitive answers. But one summer associate has a core […] -
Email Scandals, Job Searches, Law Schools
Emory Law Student Lament: 'We don’t need donuts, we need jobs.'
When times are tough, the tough get… whiny? A law student at Emory is frustrated by the lack of jobs being offered up by Career Services and circulated an email airing his or her discontent. Addressed to “My Fellow Emory Law Students,” it lambasts the employees charged with helping Emory grads land jobs. It’s available […] -
Biglaw, Email Scandals
Emails to Partners That Can Never Be Sent
Here at Above the Law, we like to provide a service to our readers. Sometimes things happen at a law firm that you just can’t talk about to your colleagues. But you can always tell us. Last week, we corresponded with a frustrated attorney. Despite the fact that he’s quite senior and has changed firms […] -
Alex Kozinski, Clarence Thomas, Email Scandals, Racism, Rudeness, Supreme Court Clerks
The Harvard Email Controversy: How It All Began
We’re hoping the Harvard Law School email controversy has run its course — and we suspect that it has. (But we still invite you to take our reader poll on whether Crimson DNA’s email was racist or offensive.) Before we close the door on this story, we’d like to give you the background on how […]
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Email Scandals, Harvard Law Review, Minority Issues, Racism, Reader Polls, Richard Posner
Was the Harvard Email Racist? Was it Offensive?Take Our Reader Polls
If you’re tired of reading about the Harvard Law School email controversy — judging from our traffic and comment levels, most of you aren’t, but maybe some of you are — we have some good news. Our coverage is winding down. (We do have a few loose ends to tie up, though, which may take […] -
Email Scandals, Minority Issues, Racism
Harvard BLSA Responds to Email ControversyPlus a statement from the HLS dean of students.
Yesterday, I asked why the Harvard Black Law Students Association had been silent on the controversial email from a third-year Harvard Law School student raising the “possibility that African Americans are, on average, genetically predisposed to be less intelligent.” Today, the organization released a statement on its website: Harvard BLSA denounces racially inflammatory language – […] -
Email Scandals, Harvard, Racism, Rank Stupidity
Harvard Law School BLSA and the Banality of Evil
Elie here: just wanted to make sure you all know what’s coming. Few things embarrass me like the Harvard Black Law Students Association. It could be the most credible foil to systemic racism against black law students. It has instead become a convenient tool to be used by those who wish to ignore the racial […] -
Email Scandals, Harvard Law Review, Martha Minow, Racism
The Harvard Law School ‘Racist’ Email Controversy:Dean Martha Minow Weighs In
Martha Minow, Dean of the Harvard Law School — and, by the way, a possible Supreme Court nominee — has issued a statement regarding the allegedly racist email by a third-year Harvard Law School student that has been making the rounds. (We refer to the 3L in these pages as simply “CRIMSON DNA” or “DNA”; […] -
Email Scandals, Harvard, Harvard Law Review, listserv, Racism
The Harvard Law School 'Racist' Email Controversy:Corrections and More Commentary
Earlier today, we wrote about an email controversy emanating from the halls of Harvard Law School. A 3L at HLS — referred to in these pages simply as “CRIMSON DNA,” and please help us keep it that way — sent out an email message that some construed as “racist.” In the email, “CRIMSON DNA,” following […] -
Email Scandals, Harvard Law Review, listserv, Minority Issues, Racism
Harvard Law School 3L's Racist Email Goes National
Every time you put something into an email, please remember that someone you send it to may hit Forward. If your email makes the case for a biological reason for racial disparities in intelligence, someone might hit Forward and send it to Black Law Student Associations across the nation. That’s what happened to a Harvard […] -
Boutique Law Firms, Email Scandals, Paralegals
When Paralegals Burn Bridges
Here at Above the Law, we’re used to seeing funny and fiery departure memos. But the one we were forwarded last night is truly a special treat. Here’s the set up. The memo comes out of a small firm in the Atlanta area. It was written by a paralegal — we’ll call her “Blaze of […]