Greetings from the future. After being laid off last year 13 days before Christmas, I couldn’t help but resent the managing partner at my law firm who, in an effort to protect his personal bottom line, blindsided me with a pink slip in the late afternoon of Friday, December 12, 2008. So last year, I…
Bitter Review: William Kunstler: Radical Lawyer Disturbing the Universe
[Ed. Note: Weekends are for movies. So we turned to our film critic friend, Todd Gilchrist, for a review from the court of critical opinion.] William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe is a documentary about William Kunstler, a lawyer as confounding as he is inspiring. After decades of service as a civil rights attorney and activist,…
Partner to BL1Y: Associates are 'Self-Absorbed Egotists'
[Ed. Note: The following is written by the same “38-year-old partner at a prestigious firm” who wrote “Partner to Associates: Stop Being ‘Entitled, Whiny Pussies,’” which we posted last Wednesday. It is a response to “Associate to Partners: Shut Up About Us Being ‘Entitled’” by frequent Bitter Lawyer contributor BL1Y and posted last Friday.] You…
Partner to Associates: Stop Being 'Entitled, Whiny Pussies'
[Ed. Note: This piece by a “38-year-old partner at a prestigious firm” resulted in a four-part impromptu Partner v. Associate debate with frequent Bitter Lawyer commenter BL1Y, who is a recently laid-off BigLaw associate. The four parts can be read in this order: 1. “Partner to Associates: Stop Being ‘Entitled, Whiny Pussies’” 2. “Associate to…
Bitter Lawyer Baseball Fans: Yankees/Phillies
A pair of record-book home runs by The Phillies’ Chase Utley (son of attorney David Utley) last night closed the gap to 3-2, and now the World Series heads back to a cracked-up Yankee Stadium for game six this Wednesday. That means whether you’re a diehard baseball fanatic, a casual admirer or a total hater…
Label Me the Fired Intern
One day. That is how long my first summer law firm internship lasted. I blame that label maker.
Bitter Review: Amelia
[Ed. Note: Weekends are for movies. So we turned to our film critic friend, Todd Gilchrist, for a review from the court of critical opinion.] Watching Amelia, it’s hard to know what’s more generic—the rise, fall, and redemption story structure that director Mira Nair adopts in order to examine the life of Amelia Earhart, or…
The Bitter Five: 10-23-09
Welcome to the first episode of the new Bitter Lawyer series, The Bitter Five, where we break down the week’s top-five bitterest stories in the legal media. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2009 Links to all the stories from this week’s The Bitter Five episode are listed below. No. 5 Louisiana Justice of the Peace Keith Bardwell…
The 1L and Dr. Douche
I caught a lot of hell for going to law school, but I never thought it would make me fear for my life. It’s been less than two months since I started law school, and in that time I’ve endured a steady stream of email forwards with lawyer jokes from my annoying uncles, suffered snide…
Bruce Wasserstein: Deal King Lawyer?
Name any mega-deal in the last three decades, and there’s a good chance Bruce Wasserstein had a heavy hand in it. Wasserstein, who died last Wednesday at the age of 61, served as Chairman and CEO of the financial firm Lazard since 2005 and was a lawyer at Cravath, Swaine and Moore in New York…
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