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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:28 AM Author: beady-eyed disgusting gunner tattoo http://opinionistas.com/2006/01/23/more-sound-fury-signifying-nothing/
Well, not sure if it's OMM, but she calls it: "X’ XXXXXXX & XXXXX, LLP".
Some quotes:
"I turned the offer down because I thought I could find the ultimate pipe-dream - a large firm that cared about associate lifestyles and entry-level professional development, and valued associates as more than just billable human commodities. First I went to a smaller group within a large firm, then the satellite office of a large firm. I never found what I was looking for."
"What I did discover is that 'Biglaw,' or whatever contrived oversimplified thing you want to call it, is a concept, an attitude. It exists in a place regardless of rankings or attorney roster sizes."
"Existential disappointment is rampant in law firms. In the four firms I’ve worked for, it grew on the walls like mold and seeped into the elevator shafts. It’s in every scornful glance from a partner, every verbal sneer from an older associate, every snotty remark about another person’s lower-ranked summer firm or law school. The act of judging your own worth based on affiliations with an organization, peer group, income bracket - that is existential disappointment."
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:30 AM Author: multi-colored headpube people are still reading that blog? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4891176) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:32 AM Author: Big-titted Stead Potus what a fuckin pussy. who finds existential meaning at work? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4891182) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:34 AM Author: razzle bat-shit-crazy sweet tailpipe nursing home Whoa. That little part you quoted doesn't do this justice. You have to read the entire post... Jesus Christ.
I can't believe she's crashing and burning this fast. Is her entire blog going to consist of her posting juvenile tirades against people who send her mean emails? |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:39 AM Author: beady-eyed disgusting gunner tattoo "Is her entire blog going to consist of her posting juvenile tirades against people who send her mean emails?"
I'd keep reading the blog if that was the case; not sure how such a blog would make the leap into book form, though. |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:41 AM Author: razzle bat-shit-crazy sweet tailpipe nursing home Heh, true. But I think people will lose interest after a certain point.
I'm truly amazed by her reaction though. Did she not think people would feel like she was a liar?
What's even more amazing is not securing the book deal *before* revealing herself and quitting her job. |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:44 AM Author: motley hot cruise ship indirect expression "Did she not think people would feel like she was a liar?"
Do you mean because her blog gave the impression that her current firm was much more prestigious than it really is (at least according to people here) or something else?
To some extent, all of these lawyer/associate blogs embellish the truth. |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:45 AM Author: razzle bat-shit-crazy sweet tailpipe nursing home 14 lawyer branch office of a lifestyle firm that only requires 1800 billables and doesn't even pay $125k =/= Top NYC biglaw firm (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4891259) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:48 AM Author: beady-eyed disgusting gunner tattoo She should've claimed some of the stories came from friends. She looks like a tool claiming she's at a ultra presitigous NYC biglaw firm. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4891278) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:48 AM Author: embarrassed to the bone stirring death wish And she was a shitty writer. especially for working in litigation. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4891282) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 12:56 PM Author: Puce Cracking Corner She's probably way better than you. Posts like this are so ridiculous. I don't know that she seems could enough to make it as a respected professional writer, but compared to the average litigator, she was good. I mean, it's basically objectively false to say she was a shitty writer, unless you mean in comparison to successful professional writers. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4891722) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:59 AM Author: Big-titted Stead Potus OMFG that sounds like hell summer camp! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4891348) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:48 AM Author: Green cheese-eating center Well, no matter how good Littler is for labor and employment, it's not Cravath, SullCrom, or even Skadden -- which was the type of firm she implied she worked at.
Mostly, though, she's just sort of pathetic. I'd say she'd end up in a random public defender's office, but with this crap I think even they would hesitate to hire her, UVA or not. |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:52 AM Author: razzle bat-shit-crazy sweet tailpipe nursing home She comes off as some kind of pseudo-intellectual with a superiority complex. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4891298) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:55 AM Author: Drab Fragrant Location Which doesn't distinguish her from 99% of lawyers. ;) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4891322) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 12:26 PM Author: titillating abnormal indian lodge she would fit in perfectly here then. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4891506) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 12:27 PM Author: razzle bat-shit-crazy sweet tailpipe nursing home Nah. No one from this board would ever write something like this:
"Existential disappointment is rampant in law firms. In the four firms I’ve worked for, it grew on the walls like mold and seeped into the elevator shafts. It’s in every scornful glance from a partner, every verbal sneer from an older associate, every snotty remark about another person’s lower-ranked summer firm or law school. The act of judging your own worth based on affiliations with an organization, peer group, income bracket - that is existential disappointment." |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:54 AM Author: peach self-centered hall This entire thread is proof you all suffer from existential disappointment. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4891316) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 12:17 PM Author: navy field sound barrier Seriously, espeically the part where they are like "well she said she was from S&C or Cravath...not Littler...oh the humanity..."
Douches. |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 12:21 PM Author: peach self-centered hall You're included, simply by posting in this thread. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4891487) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 12:27 PM Author: navy field sound barrier Thats a good point, I am insecure about my TTT firm
DING! |
Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:34 AM Author: offensive address windowlicker Are these people in LA? Or did I miss the announcement where 10 NY firms closed down to make OMM a "top 10 firm?" (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4891190) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:35 AM Author: honey-headed ticket booth pisswyrm maybe they are referring to something other than Vault, god forbid? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4891198) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:37 AM Author: embarrassed to the bone stirring death wish in fairness, OMM isn't a top 10 firm in any proper ranking (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4891205) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:41 AM Author: honey-headed ticket booth pisswyrm i'd bet the firm is actually latham and watkins and she fudged the name to just preserve anonymity.
i'm guessing her grades weren't good, and latham tends to hire people with bad grades if they are "cool". |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:43 AM Author: embarrassed to the bone stirring death wish well, she was bottom of the class at uva. that's probably not latham. think more shitty in NY. maybe willkie. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4891247) |
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Date: January 24th, 2006 1:01 PM Author: Geriatric narrow-minded generalized bond space Hey! That's not shitty! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4900549) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:47 AM Author: beady-eyed disgusting gunner tattoo She should've outed the guy. Now that would've been good. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4891270) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:48 AM Author: offensive address windowlicker It's a kinda weird way to preserve anonymity -- you'd think she could have just said Firm X instead of picking an alias that's so blantly obvious.
I don't have any problem with OMM, I just wouldn't personally bill it as Top 10 firm unless I was in Cali. |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:51 AM Author: beady-eyed disgusting gunner tattoo I'm not sure why she attempted to hide the firm. I wonder if she actually got an email from a Yahoo! mail account, and slapped on a firm name.
Who would send something like that from their work account?
Is this another fib?? |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:53 AM Author: razzle bat-shit-crazy sweet tailpipe nursing home Well she's lied about most of everything else, why not make up fake emails to make people think she got an offer from a top firm? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4891301) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:55 AM Author: offensive address windowlicker To be fair, she put "top 10 firm" in quotes. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4891323) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:55 AM Author: beady-eyed disgusting gunner tattoo She might have got a few offers. I just wonder if someone was dumb enough to email from their work account. I'm starting to think she got an anonymous Yahoo! email and tacked on the firm name in order to throw that tirade in. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4891324) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:58 AM Author: embarrassed to the bone stirring death wish If somebody is a partner at OMM, why not email her from there? He was basically calling her a liar and that her blog misrepresented BIGLAW. And even if her blog was true, it wasn't true about a firm like OMM, because she's never worked for them. Being a paralegal /=/ atty. It'd be like the ballboy for the Mets saying he thinks playing for them would suck. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4891344) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:58 AM Author: Thriller Rebellious Spot Hominid I agree, she has no credibility. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4891342) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:56 AM Author: Crystalline provocative yarmulke DC (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4891327) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:36 AM Author: Big-titted Stead Potus you didnt get the memo? it was a double memo, there was something about the super bowl pool in there too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4891200) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:55 AM Author: Thriller Rebellious Spot Hominid "Or is it because you’re terrified that I may have figured out more of the truth behind this vacant way of living in less than two years of practice than you have in your entire career? And most of all, is it sheer dread that I may be right?
Regardless of your answer, know that nothing you say will ever stop me."
Powerful. No amount of insults will stop her from writing this shitty blog. This is truly an inspiration.
Note also the horrible writing in the first paragraph. The useless failure is finally starting to implode.
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 12:00 PM Author: embarrassed to the bone stirring death wish There's no way her IQ is above 115. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4891354) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 12:58 PM Author: Puce Cracking Corner Attacking her IQ based on her blog, huh? The ridiculousness goes up yet another notch. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4891734) |
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Date: January 24th, 2006 12:05 PM Author: Thriller Rebellious Spot Hominid Hi melissa! (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4900181) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:57 AM Author: Aphrodisiac base There is nothing more unprestigious than an unprestigious bitch with delusions of grandeur. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4891338) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 11:59 AM Author: Thriller Rebellious Spot Hominid Not to mention her birdnest hair. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=344812&forum_id=2#4891347) |
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Date: January 23rd, 2006 12:34 PM Author: gold excitant den Subject: "O" reaches a new LOW.... "Is her entire blog going to consist of her posting juvenile tirades against people who send her mean emails?"
I hope not. This blog is really going down-hill faster than I had ever imagined. |