Kamis, 30 April 2009
Sad day at a firm much like mine. We've had some layoff-related suicides as well, but at least we're competent enough not to let t...
Senin, 27 April 2009
The firm's Board of Directors met this evening to discuss the recent layoffs and additional possible actions we might take to stem the r...
Minggu, 26 April 2009
Anonymous Daughter just forced me to watch a video on YouTube of an unattractive British woman singing very loudly. Apparently this Susan B...
Jumat, 24 April 2009
I received an invitation today to an associate's wedding. I don't know why any of my associates would think I would want to see the...
Kamis, 23 April 2009
An e-mail from one of our offer-rescinded summer associates somehow made it through my spam filter and ended up in the pile of e-mail printo...
Rabu, 22 April 2009
None of our peer firms are admitting this -- and we're not admitting it publicly either -- but we're absolutely rescinding some of o...
Selasa, 21 April 2009
I caught someone this afternoon writing Twitter posts during a meeting. I took a peek at her BlackBerry screen and read what she was writin...
Senin, 20 April 2009
To: ALL Re: More Layoffs Just kidding. See, it doesn't always have to be bad news. I assure you, we are doing everything possible to a...
Jumat, 17 April 2009
The New York Times is reporting that a man is suing the New York Yankees and the City of New York, saying his civil rights were violated wh...
Kamis, 16 April 2009
Oh, Passover, why did you have to end so quickly? Usually I'm the first one to speak out against holidays, for the way they guilt us in...
Rabu, 15 April 2009
We'd been trying to avoid this, but we finally had to do some layoffs today at the firm. It's a sad day for the handful of attorney...
Selasa, 14 April 2009
Like a lot of firms, we've been trying to find a way to push the start date of our incoming class of new associates, since there isn...
Senin, 13 April 2009
The New York Times wrote an article today about one of our competitor firms paying associates one-third of their salary to take a year off....