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- Corporate Attorney. Got Canned. Started A Blog: laidoffdiary.wordpress.com and then moved it to http://lawshucks.com/laidoffdiary/ Come by and share what's on your mind...but do it before I get drunk.
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8: that goddamn poke function. I don't get it. You poke me. I poke you back. you poke me again. I poke you back. You poke me again. I bitchslap you. but chances are I'm not "real" friends with you so that my bitch slapping desire is never fully realized making me bitch-slap frustrated and antsy that I end up bitch slapping someone who doesn't deserve it in what you might call it bitch slap collateral damage scenario.
even when FB tried to make the poke function more fun, it was still stupid with more words.
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#3:
I agree. but I also am a bit more cynical. I'm thinking that some associates are too scared to make a wave--they are well trained little monkeys. Also, some people don't know what else to do or where else to go that they hope that BigLaw will take them back so they continue kissing ass.
pathetic.
Lawyers need to start standing up and proving they are the outspoken assholes everyone thinks they are.
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#3:
I agree. but I also am a bit more cynical. I'm thinking that some associates are too scared to make a wave--they are well trained little monkeys. Also, some people don't know what else to do or where else to go that they hope that BigLaw will take them back so they continue kissing ass.
pathetic.
Lawyers need to start standing up and proving they are the outspoken assholes everyone thinks they are.
www.lawshucks.com/laidoffdiary
#3:
I agree. but I also am a bit more cynical. I'm thinking that some associates are too scared to make a wave--they are well trained little monkeys. Also, some people don't know what else to do or where else to go that they hope that BigLaw will take them back so they continue kissing ass.
pathetic.
Lawyers need to start standing up and proving they are the outspoken assholes everyone thinks they are.
www.lawshucks.com/laidoffdiary
I totally burst the bubble of some poor freshman volunteering for the ACLU collecting signatures in the UWS of NYC in support of gay marriage. He was so set on going to law school. I couldn't help it. The bubble had my name all over it. I think he looked like he wanted to cry. I felt bad but knew that it was for the best.
can we please call this blog Below the Law if we are going to keep talking about law "students"??
that's gotta suck for the people MLB laid off (of which I know a few...)
I love how I hear about some law firms doing interviews in the sections that my friends off from... but of course, they don't actually hire anyway because it's a horse and pony show to try to prove that the lay offs were performance based and not douchebaggery based.
let me get this straight...break BACK into BigLaw??
Didn't you just ESCAPE from BigLaw?? (and got paid a nice severance)
I'm so confused...
91: no, I definitely consider it an escape and the severance just makes it sweeter.
have fun being stuck in there.
19: hehehheh
GGGOOOOODDDD, I wish people would learn to RELAX
There are two possibilities: 1) you're fucked and 2) you're not fucked
If 1, then either you can a) bitch, moan and worry or b) enjoy your fucking fat paycheck and score with the hot paralegal (or, as 88 suggests, SPREAD the news about the bearded bandit)
If 2, then either you can a) bitch, moan and worry or b) enjoy your fucking fat paycheck and score with the hot paralegal
what's it gonna be homeslice?
resignation?? bah! lawyers take themselves too seriously. this is hilarious. they should have all had a good laugh about it followed by a round of beers...and jello shots.
I'm more amazed at you people for being amazed that this happens than at the fact that this happens.
Do you NOT think this happens in BigLaw or gov't or business?
maybe it's you guys who can't think.
THIS IS NOTHING NEW.
just wait until 5% of you get into BigLaw and you have that idiot guy next to you who gets work even though he's a complete...wait for it...idiot. He'll be there for 4-5 years until the firm can then usher him out into a nice comfy inhouse job at one of their clients.
WAKE THE FUCK UP!!
NO SHIT! Did we need UT Law to tell us this?
Moop? Kyle's band on southpark??
oh what the fuck. another day another salary cut. Didn't we just finish a day yesterday? another one already?
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#3: I completely agree
what the fuck?
have you run out of shit to write on?
I'm surprised you didn't pass out from boredom writing this article because I almost did from just scanning the beginning of this article
I think my dog just farted. I can smell it all the way up here in the loft.
goddammit.
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see, now this is at least a relevant post to BigLaw attorneys...not whether NYU is NYLS.
143: I agree we should get hazard pay. BigLaw sucked the life out of me. What's scary is that there are tons of partners and koolaid drinking dumbasses who still believe BigLaw cares for them and supports them and sends them back to school and combs their hair and goes clothes shopping with them. It's the Stockholm syndrome. I'm sure there are some people who are truly happy in BigLaw, but that's few and far between. Most of them don't know what else to do with themselves or how to live another way to be truly happy. It's like the Matrix. These people would rather go back into the Matrix than face life and actually work at something meaningful that makes them happy.
just be glad you're out. leave them there to chase their own tail.
34: why are you here? are you trying to obtain your M.R.S. by trolling sites dedicated to lawyers??
wow. I'm not going to call anyone out but I'm amazed at the people who claim they are "partners" but sound like the kind of guy that would roll shitty weed in a blunt with a cigar wrapper and claim they had class.
really? you really need to step back and look at what you write because it's pretty disgraceful and I chagrin at the idea that you really are a partner and poor associates have to work under you.
Also, I really wouldn't try to predict whether you'll be successful in 10-20 years. I doubt the partners who were outed or de-equitized during this economic downturn would not have thought so even 5 years ago.
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Paul Hastings will always be synonymous to that farewell email from Gregory Evans, Jr. in 2004. I just wish I had the balls to have written the same sort of masterpiece to my former asshole firm but all I could think of was "Dear Firm. Fuck You" so in my moment of clarity and better judgment, I decided not to send out an email at all.
And just for shits and giggles, here's the old f-you very much email:
As many of you are aware, today is my last day at the firm. It is time for me to move on and I want you to know that I have accepted a position as “Trophy Husband”. This decision was quite easy and took little consideration. However, I am confident this new role represents a welcome change in my life and a step up from my current situation. While I have a high degree of personal respect for PHJW as a law firm, and I have made wonderful friendships during my time here, I am no longer comfortable working for a group largely populated by gossips, backstabbers and Napoleonic personalities. In fact, I dare say that I would rather be dressed up like a pinata and beaten than remain with this group any longer. I wish you continued success in your goals to turn vibrant, productive, dedicated associates into an aimless, shambling group of dry, lifeless husks.
May the smoke from any bridges I burn today be seen far and wide.
Respectfully submitted,
[SIGNED]
ps. Achilles absent, was Achilles still. (Homer)
And of course, the other goodbye email about scraping of a uterus. (shudder)
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