Re: instead of plating other shit they probably complained to god about the dead pota
 

Define "freakish"?

Re: instead of plating other shit they probably complained to god about the dead pota
 

Stick "megaboobs" into Google images.

Re: Nwtf
 

Can't respond in detail right now- I'm drafting an email telling all the non-corners that I am taking a bonus equal to 10% of their comp in lieu of their Nov and Dec bonii.

P. what do you want for Xmas?

Re: instead of plating other shit they probably complained to god about the dead pota
 

There was a range of boob sizes that popped up, npi, on the first page, some, which are a little too much (eg, Maxi Mounds), but others of which are fine (eg: Daphne Rosen). with me.

I like boobs!

Re: instead of plating other shit they probably complained to god about the dead pota
 

well, your head is preternaturally large, but remember, sidd's a pinhead.

Re: Look at it. Study it. Commit it to Memory. Savor it again and again.
 

No savoring here.

Re: Welcome back E/O, leagl and Fringey: no one say the name "Penske" 3 times in a ro
 

It appears my last post, slightly over a year ago, was about curves.

Re: Chimney Sweep
 

Which movie is this line from?

Re: Nwtf
 

I can't figure out who would be the bigger asshole: the one who tries to shove this deal up the nonequity partner's ass or the nonequity "partner" who would be willing to take it up the ass.

Re: Nwtf
 

They do it in health care all the time. You don't magically "become" a partner in a medical practice. You buy in. Law's always struck me odd in the way it awards partnership. Why not take the concept a step further and let people who want to invest buy a partner slot? This would provide two benefits:

1. Cash;
2. A hell of a lot less attrition among partners; and
3. A stable of people who could probably bring in a lot of portables quickly (a younger lawyer with enough cash to buy a partnership seat in a big firm would have to have a load of connections to serious business).

Of course, there'd have to be a baseline merit assessment as well, but that's a given.

(Yes. I know the comeback. Why would anyone want to? All I can say to that is, hey, if a person wants to buy a bad product, there's no law against selling it to him w/full disclosure.)

Re: Nwtf
 

the people I've known who end up "salaried" partners are decent lawyers, but perhaps in an over-populated area of law. Always with no book. The firm could institute a policy where non-equity partners get hit in the head with a bat as they walk in the door, and they'd just buy a helmet. The comfort/security of the big firm keeps them from even considering going anywhere.

my last biglaw firm starting sucking wind a few years before I left. over about 5 years tons of people left. it got to the point that anyone with the guts to leave had. guess what was left?

Re: Nwtf
 

Ask the Mrs. if she would do that weekend-long Scheherazade fantasy thingy again. That was fun and I think I am rested up for it.

Also, some Petrus would be nice.

Re: Look at it. Study it. Commit it to Memory. Savor it again and again.
 

Maybe none there, but(t) savouring here........

Re: Nwtf
 

Or get the "Here's half of your bonus - the other half comes in May" bullshit, which basically makes you an indentured servant until you grow the balls to leave the other slug of cash on the table and split.

(But I will say this - when you do quit, it's fun watching the cheap prick who screwed you grapple with the realization he played his hand badly, and will now have to deal with a row of upcoming trials w/o the only person who knew the cases intimately. Money well spent.)

Re: Nwtf
 

It's not as high of baseline as most of the colostomy pouches* in the biz like to think.

They/we have already proven we are suckaas for a bad product, its called a J.D.


*given the fully jumped shark that the derogatory term "douche bag" now is (with the final clearing of the shark hurdle being the recent NYTimes article on the use of the term), I have now upgraded my hipster lingo with "colostomy pouch", which seems like a more viscerally correct characterisation of those on whom I bestow it. No offence. ymmv.