I received an offer recently that I couldn’t refuse – an invitation from “legal search consultants.” Headhunters! They were having a convention and asked if I wanted to drop by, and, you know, say hi. Vague images flitted through my mind – guys in suits dancing in a conga line wearing hats with silly horns. [...]
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Jungle Drums
Posted in AboveTheLaw series, tagged candidate, conga line, dance the limbo, door-to-door salesman, exclusivity, Harvard, Harvard Law School, headhunters, legal job-hunting, legal search consultants, limbo pole, party, party animals, placements, real estate agent, S.O.L., shindig, silly horns, Sullivan & Cromwell, therapist, vacuum cleaner salesman, Yale Law School on November 30, 2011 | 12 Comments »
A Radio Reunion
Posted in Radio, tagged associate, biglaw, law school, Steven Spierer, Talk Radio One on November 13, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Last February I appeared on Steven Spierer’s radio show, and he brought on a caller, Matt, who had just started work at a big New York City law firm. You can listen to that interview here. Now – 9 months later – I went back on Steven’s show, and caught up with Matt, and heard [...]
The Haves and The Have-nots
Posted in AboveTheLaw series, tagged aptitude, begging, Caste system, Dalit, Gambia, Heidi Klum, hunger, intestinal parasites, job offer, Latvian, law jobs, law school, LSAT, maritime law, Oxfam, perma-debt, poverty, Riga, Shearman & Sterling, Sullivan & Cromwell, summer programs, Untouchables on November 9, 2011 | 80 Comments »
It’s mid-September. I’m talking with a client , a 3L at a top-tier school. “Here’s how it works,” she explains. “There’s the have’s and the have-nots. Either you have a job offer, or you don’t. If you don’t, it sucks. You feel like an illegal alien.” Unfortunately, she’s a have-not. Yes, she’s working to correct [...]
A Little White Lie
Posted in AboveTheLaw series, tagged Adolph Eichmann, billable hours, billables, churning, hours, litigation, settlement, Sullivan & Cromwell on November 2, 2011 | 42 Comments »
I tell the truth in these columns – at least, to the degree I find convenient or advisable. There is such a thing as a surfeit of veracity. My clients are lawyers, so god help me if I record something a little too candid with regard to their doings. Just talking about myself raises issues. [...]
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