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My (Former) Best Friend’s Wedding

June 21, 2021 by Bitter and Abused 17 Comments

I was in the middle of a merger deal, working 80 hours a week, for about two months. For weeks, I’d been telling the partner, I was best man in an upcoming wedding and I couldn’t work Saturday the 5th.  He assured me that I’d be fine.  “For God’s sake, what kind of monster do you…

Filed Under: Columns, Featured, Lawyer Tagged With: Associate Abuse, biglaw, litigation, wedding

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Law Firm Quarterly Reviews: They Could at Least Buy Me a Drink First

May 24, 2013 by Bitter and Abused 2 Comments

If your law firm is anything like mine, now is the time of year where you sit down with your managing partner and some senior associate. The associate knows you from the barcode on your arm. The partner, probably just doesn’t know you at all. These two people spend about thirty minutes explaining your progress…

Filed Under: Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: big law, law firms

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Stop Calling Me Cupcake

February 9, 2012 by Bitter and Abused Leave a Comment

Everyone at my law firm is calling me “cupcake.” It’s been this way for the past two weeks.

Filed Under: Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: Bitter and Abused, small firms

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Nix the Crappy Cover Letter, Let's Talk Kickbacks

November 16, 2011 by Bitter and Abused 6 Comments

You forward my resume to the hiring partner or committee, with a note that the firm should take a close look at me. If hired, I become your bitch.

Filed Under: Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: bitter rant, cover letters, gl11

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We're Keeping the Goddamn Hereins Herein

October 18, 2011 by Bitter and Abused 4 Comments

I was once a young associate in a small firm, and I thought I knew better. As in I knew how to write better than the four partners for whom I worked, including the one partner who only dictated. Most of the time I think I was right, but in retrospect it may not have…

Filed Under: Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: bitter rant, gl11, legal writing

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Friend’s Family Law Bitch

April 15, 2010 by Bitter and Abused 12 Comments

When you’re young and new to the law, there are tons of ways to foresee yourself being abused as a lawyer. Especially a low-rent attorney like me.

Filed Under: Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: Associate Abuse, family law

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This Toy Operates on Battery

February 28, 2010 by Bitter and Abused 27 Comments

Blah blah blah. And then, about a minute later, he drops a bomb. “So, [Cathy], how’s your vagina?”

Filed Under: Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: Associate Abuse, sexism, sexual harassment

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Associate Swap: What Happens When You’re Derailed Off Partner Track

February 18, 2010 by Bitter and Abused 8 Comments

Why did two female lawyers quickly swap practice groups unannounced and without justification?

Filed Under: Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: Associate Abuse, partners, partnership

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Screening the BigLaw Un-Firm

January 28, 2010 by Bitter and Abused 9 Comments

My law firm doesn’t have a modicum of concern about its associates’ health.

Filed Under: Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: Associate Abuse, health care

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Ski In, (Can’t) Ski Out

January 13, 2010 by Bitter and Abused 17 Comments

This was it.  The year I finally decided to do it.  After three years of relentless work and zero (count ‘um—zero) vacations or sick days, I told HR, my boss and my secretary last October that I would be taking off the week of January 12.  My boss (I’ll call Eric), who’s the partner I…

Filed Under: Columns, Lawyer Tagged With: Associate Abuse

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