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I have a special practice. I handle one client.

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Posted by Tom Hagen in "Open Thread: Is This the Beginning of the End for Summer Associate Programs? " Thursday, May 21, 2009 1:15 PM

This is a bad move. Summer associates are a firm's lawyers of the future. If firms don't get a piece of that action, they risk everything they have. Maybe not now, but years from now.

Posted by Tom Hagen in "Fish & Richardson Puts One-Third Of Its Incoming Associates On Ice" Thursday, May 21, 2009 1:47 PM

If anyone is still interested in Fish, my associate Al Neri could take you out fishing. It would be just as fun.

Posted by Tom Hagen in "Public Financing of Judicial Elections? Only if Lawyers Pay For It." Friday, May 22, 2009 10:06 AM

My client prefers to finance judges in a different way... Those judges that he keeps in his pocket like so many nickels and dimes.

Posted by Tom Hagen in "Reversed Perk Watch: Kirkland Claws Back Health Care Costs" Friday, May 22, 2009 2:25 PM

51 -- Other posters have created user accounts as PE (with slightly different spellings) and the old pic. The real PE seems to have chosen a new pic to distingush himself as the "real" PE. He did a poor job.

Posted by Tom Hagen in "Wilmer Lunch Memo" Wednesday, May 27, 2009 10:43 AM

Take summers to Louis' Restaurant in the Bronx, and try the veal. It's the best in the city.

Posted by Tom Hagen in "Staying Competitive During an Economic Downturn" Thursday, June 11, 2009 4:48 PM

I don't have to worry about employment in an economic downturn. I have a special practice; I handle one client.

Posted by Tom Hagen in "Cravath Offers Voluntary Deferral to Class of 2009 -- and Delays Class of 2010 a Full Year" Friday, June 12, 2009 11:50 AM

At this point, incoming associates might want to lay low in Sicily for while, under the protection of Don Tommasino, until things cool off a bit.

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