Well, another one bites the dust. A third year associate had a break down in the 38th floor file room and quit.  She is a mildly attractive and reasonably friendly young lady (who everyone assumes was having an affair with a partner because a) she’s mildly attractive and b) reasonably friendly - a rare combination [...]

Damn it all to hell!  I was three casualties away from getting a space in the attached garage.  Three defections from driving my heated car from my heated garage at home to the heated attached garage at work.  Three “quality of life” choices from being able to give a condescending look to the lower [...]

I just had a meeting with a younger partner to go over a draft of a memo to a client regarding a fifty-state survey we had two summers perform to make them feel like they were contributing.  The client did not ask for it, but since we’re billing them for the summers’ time (reduced rate [...]

I interviewed a 2nd year lateral candidate on Friday and was thoroughly entertained.  She is coming from a smaller firm and thought she could “open up” to me because I am an associate and ask me all sorts of “quality of life” questions.  Sometimes I feel guilty telling candidates about the firm’s great work/life culture [...]

My Summer Associate mentee this summer is the son of a Congressman.  It is obvious he went to law school because his family doesn’t think laying around the pool getting drunk all day is a reputable enough profession.  That’s too bad, because I’m sure he is much better at that than he is at the [...]

Summer is the best time of year at a large law firm. Why, might you ask? Summer associates, of course! It’s the associates’ best chance to eat at nice restaurants and only chance use the firm’s luxury box at the baseball game. All we have to do in return is pretend like we have normal [...]