Comments on: T’was the night before layoffs, and all through the firm…

By: moralpopo

moralpopo — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 17:00:24 +0000

So many mentions of all of you being so “bright” and “smart” and “intelligent”. Actually, all you bumbling idiots running the markets with the bankers drove this Country into the ground. Maybe we start allowing Gardeners and “regular” folk to start making more decisions – as it appears “common sense” escapes most of you. Don't get me started on your social ineptitude either..you're really just glorified “memorizers”

By: Guest

Guest — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:44:23 +0000

I see you drank the Kool-Aid. Biglaw makes simple things complex, and the supervisors are not overly bright — they are just especially anal. There is no good training at Biglaw. You call typing and retyping interrogatories good training? Biglaw lawyers don't argue brilliantly at hearings and trials — they just pound the table and waste as much time as possible. Biglaw is a fat, pompous joke — an overweight diabetic with narcisstic personality disorder. All the best quality law in the country is practiced in midlaw, where you cannot assign 12 associates to a single case. Note the rush of Biglaw attorneys all forming new midlaw firms.

By: Name

Name — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:39:51 +0000

You learn how to think and write briefs well by writing memos and briefs for biglaw because you're dealing with complex issues and being supervised by bright people. You're also seeing very bright lawyers in action at hearings and trials. This is why most people go bigaw 3-4 years to midlaw. You get the best training that way. If you get Lathamed 4 months in like Jobless Lawyer you're completely screwed. Small law will mold you into a horrible lawyer because you're working with dumber people constantly. The good boutiques most likely will not be an option because they don't take new associates because they don't want to train.

By: Name

Name — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:05:31 +0000

I, too, went from Biglaw to small law. Yes, the cases were worse, the supervisors were much dumber, and there were few perks. But I learned how to be a lawyer at small law. I took hundreds of depositions and argued motions. At Biglaw, I photocopied, document reviewed, and wrote memos — things that paralegals do. Biglaw is just a scam to screw rich clients. Biglaw wastes so much time on useless busy work that you can spend seven years there without taking a single deposition or arguing a single motion.

By: Name

Name — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:32:27 +0000

I went biglaw to small law and I hate it. Sh*ttier cases, less intelligent supervisors, and none of the biglaw perks.

Please, let's not glamorize small law. IMHO it's just a poorly paying cr*ppier version of biglaw.

By: Name

Name — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:27:08 +0000

They cared about the severance and not the damage to the careers of the associates because they figured the severance would make the news and the futures of those Lathamed would not.

By: Name

Name — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:21:57 +0000

I bet I can tell you why they cared about being market leaders in severance but not about the careers of the hundreds of people they Lathamed.

The severance would be in the news immediately and they thought by paying a couple extra months they'd soften the blow. They figured no one would bother to follow up with the Lathamed associates five to ten years later to document the damage to their careers. Why bother trying to minimize the damage that no one would know about? They don't seem to actually care. I think Latham failed to understand the power of the internet to get this information out there.

By: PDzorro

PDzorro — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:24:04 +0000

profits per partner is what, $2M a year at Latham? how much money do these assholes really need that they couldn't refrain from destroying a bunch of careers?

By: Name

Name — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:16:00 +0000

Why didn’t Latham defer half your class and cancel one summer class? Seems like they didn’t even try to avoid mass first year layoffs even though they must know how devastating they are to a career.

By: PDzorro

PDzorro — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:07:53 +0000

You all should sue this TTT. Bunch of reckless pricks stomping out careers just to make a buck. VERY few firms pulled a Latham yet all are dealing with the same economy.