Typos happen. That is just a fact of our increasingly digital life. We write so much — on social media, emails, texts — that not everything gets the intense scrutiny of, say, a filed brief, and yes, mistakes get made. There’s not much you can do except own up to it and move on.
One Biglaw partner, Holland & Knight’s Christopher Nolan, showed a good deal of humor when he made an oopsie. He recently posted this on LinkedIn:
Did you catch the mistake? Or is your brain so conditioned by Biglaw it switched assassins to associates? And, because it’s the internet, Nolan was called out on his error, with responses to his post noting, “I presume you mean ‘associates,’ not ‘assassins.'” And Nolan responded, “Get to know us better — your assumption is not correct!”
And he continued the bit. When a colleague coyly noted the mistake:
Nolan responded:
Now, Nolan has since edited the post, but not before it was documented by the good folks at RollOnFriday. But what a pleasant reaction to an honest mistake (well, we assume it was an error, not a confession).
Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcast, and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter @Kathryn1 or Mastodon @[email protected].