My stocking's not filled entirely with coal this Christmas: I just set up a free holiday e-card over at the Anonymous Law Firm site. A...

Unfortunately, it's holiday gift time. I've hated this practice ever since I started here. I didn't give my secretary anything...

[I just discovered my book is on the Rocky Mountain News "favorite books of 2006" list ( link here ). I'm quite flattered. P...

Just got back upstairs after a fire drill. The guy in the office next to me weighs about 300 pounds, from a life of junk food and never get...

As I suspected she might, the associate I invited over for Thanksgiving ended up calling to cancel a few hours before dinner. She wasn'...

I'm in the office early today, trying to catch up on some work. I've been busy for the past few days finishing up a proposal for a ...

I've been hearing something about an election yesterday, but with a big client deadline it was crunch day at the office and so I don...

I received an e-mail the other day: "My firm just removed the vending machines stocked with sodas, water and fruit juices. In their pl...

I've kept silent for too long regarding my thoughts about Congressman Mark Foley. I'm normally eager to write about items in the ne...

I'm still getting over my disappointment. Yesterday was National Boss Day and no one did a thing for me. I find most holidays -- Easte...

I haven't been able to post for the past two weeks because I was brutally attacked by one of my associates and am only now regaining the...

I've had it with one of my associates, and after today I'm making sure I never work with him again. We had a conference call schedu...

Got a call today from a telemarketer trying to sell me a cemetery plot for me and Anonymous Wife. I hung up on her. My wife is frustrating...

I'm pretty broken up about the death of Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter. I was planning on calling him to help us make the Snakes at ...

I watched the Emmy Awards last night, hoping that the PBS Masterpiece Theater showing of "Bleak House," my favorite television eve...

I can't wait for Monday morning. It's rare I'm so excited, but I snuck into the office this evening to prepare a little surpris...

Apologies for the week without posts. I wrote three posts while on the road for the start of recruiting season but didn't get a chance ...

Visiting Columbia today. I wanted to take Anonymous Son along, but his mother was afraid he'd get shot, and so he stayed home. I told ...

After an overnight flight last night (first class, of course, even though we put the associates in coach... we'd put the secretaries in ...

I'm doing interviews at Emory Law School today. Taking a short break between students. My 2:00 is knocking on the door but he can wait...

On the heels of the TSA announcement today, we decided to go ahead and ban all liquids and gels at the firm too. You can never be too safe....

Trying to keep book news to a minimum over here, but I did want to flag this interview I did with the New York Inquirer, in case anyone wan...

Joe Lieberman inspires me. He inspires me to change the way we run elections for the associate life committee at the firm. The way we'...

I'm starting to put together the agenda for the new associate orientation next month, and I'm not entirely sure what to do. Last ye...

I'm not looking forward to tomorrow's firm hike. This is the first year we're doing this, and it wasn't my idea. Some hots...

Every month I get a piece of garbage sent to me via e-mail from the people who charge us more than they're worth over at Lexis. I'v...

It's been a whirlwind past couple of days here. We changed toner suppliers for the printers and copy machines, and nothing has been the...

I left work early yesterday and took Anonymous Son to the Angels game, way out in Anaheim. I don't know why. I don't know why they...

I just got back from the summer associate paintball event we held this evening. We split them up into two teams and told them the winning t...

It's the home stretch for our incoming first-year associates currently studying for the Bar Exam. Less than two weeks. I thought I...

I just received an e-mail from a colleague telling me about a new study that just got released by The American Lawyer. Apparently "onl...

A sad day for corporate America today. When I heard the news this morning that former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay had died, I had my secreta...

Old people are a real problem sometimes. Anonymous Wife and I decided to celebrate the July 4th holiday by putting her grandmother into a n...

I told them not to do it. I told them that a prestigious law firm has no business playing with modern technology and trying to put together...

It seems that lots of people want to work at the firm . Or it's all a scam for the free books and t-shirts. Since I don't have any...

The firm launched our online job application this morning. Like I need more resumes to read. It's pretty ridiculous. They didn't...

Some readers have noticed I didn't mention Father's Day this past Sunday. A couple of them e-mailed, hoping I was too busy celebrat...

This past week and a half has been the perfect illustration of why I'm glad the firm's not a very diverse place, even among the supp...

I received an e-mail yesterday from an anonymous employee at a law firm in a major city. He forwarded the text of an e-mail everyone at his...

One of my associates came into the office today wearing a Brooks Brothers suit. People think Brooks Brothers is a good place to buy a suit,...

I don't know if you caught the article at the firm's web site, but we made a radical change in policy yesterday afternoon at an emer...

I took a summer associate out for tapas this afternoon. His idea. Sometimes I demand we go to a certain kind of restaurant just because I...