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Originally posted by learnedmano
"Skeleton crew"? Having just seen "Pirates of the Caribbean," that image conjures up a pretty amusing picture. My reaction was the same as yours -- who knew they were in SF? Schnader's office here in the 'Burgh seems to be holding up fairly well -- a few departures, but also a few recent arrivals -- but in light of the problems elsewhere, I keep wondering when Schnader is going to join some of other recently departed firms in the Great BigLaw Beyond (although once SF is closed, it'll be down to five East Coast offices -- four, really, if you count Cherry Hill as pasrt of the Philly office -- and maybe that'll be focused enough to let the firm recover).
P.S. What's the deal with the Philly firms going with one name? "Dechert", "Schnader" -- soon it'll be "Morgan," "Drinker", "Duane" (OK, that makes the firm sound like your cousin from West Virginia, so maybe not), etc. Once that happens, I predict that Dechert will jump ahead of the pack once again by changing its name to "D" -- or maybe an unpronounceable glyph.
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1. As to the name game, firms are like 14 year old girls. "Mary got a clit ring, Mom! I HAVE to have one." If Dechert decided to sacrifice one secretary a week to Zeus on a conference room table, a whole slew of lemmings all over town would do the same. Insecure males with small dicks and egos run amuck, trying to prove who has the biggest share of a dwindling market in a city with an economy that's been dead since before Reagan. Watching these helplessly fucked people jockey around each other is like watching the Larry Holmes v. Butterbean fight. Its as ugly and embarrassing as it is pointless and you just wish someone would stop it, but you can't help looking. Its addictive...
