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Partner screamed at me for cc'ing him on an email. I'm tired of this shit.

Two weeks ago, a nerdy litigation partner asked me to work o...
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Yeah, I'm sure the partner is the nerdy one given that you t...
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Eat a bag of dicks. (Was that short enough for you?)
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(loose cannon)
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Impertinent Boltzmann Place Of Business
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OP is not flame. I didn't make it seven months at my firm be...
hot stage
  07/21/18
apart from law being generally TTT, it must suck working for...
Plum supple field telephone
  07/20/18
If your boss is in DC I’ll punch him for you.
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Man is a writer floating an idea.
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This is TLS copypasta
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I am the Picasso of copypasta
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u know this used to be a law bort
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2008 is not coming back
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(Sherlock Holmes)
Contagious house sandwich
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He is very much in the hunt if he continues billing 2250+ ea...
hot stage
  07/21/18
smoke some more crystal meth
Razzle Station
  07/21/18
http://bitterempire.com/cc-this-bitch/
Appetizing stage
  07/21/18
Wtf? Did they just steal from us?
motley shivering dilemma crotch
  07/21/18
This really isn't written in an xo style. Seems fraud
Poppy Alcoholic Factory Reset Button
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Why would a litigation partner send a client a term sheet?
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How do you put someone else's name in the "from" l...
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(Guy about to get shitcanned for inadequate Outlook skills)
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This was my first thought, too.
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and here http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2246...
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BIGLAW needs Slack.
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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:07 PM
Author: gaped kink-friendly point

Two weeks ago, a nerdy litigation partner asked me to work on a private equity investment for one of his clients. Simple enough, right? I’m a fifth-year associate and regarded as a competent transactional attorney. I’m not the class rock star, but I’ve been told I’m “very much in the hunt for partnership.”

Sounds exciting, but being in the hunt actually makes your life worse because you have to care what partners think of you. In other words, you have to make partners like you. And if they don’t? Well, you have to obsess over the fact they don’t like you and then do everything in your power to change their minds. Even when they’re dicks. Even when they scream at you for “CC-ing” them on an email rather than including them in the “From” line. That’s right, Nerdy Litigation partner yelled at me like I was his prison bitch because I didn’t include his name in the goddamn “From” line.

“This is reckless and thoughtless behavior!” he said, his tiny jaw twitching with petulance.

Here are the facts: Last Wednesday, I sent a draft term sheet to the client and CC-ed Nerdy Litigation Partner. It’s the kind of thing I do twenty times a day. I didn’t even think twice about it. Call me crazy, but that’s how I roll. Ten minutes later, NLP was in my office yelling.

“You don’t CC me. Understand?!”

“I’m sorry,” I said. I know, I’m a pussy. But I’m in the hunt. What am I supposed to do, ruin my career? But NLP didn’t give a rat’s ass about my apology.

“Every single piece of correspondence that goes to this client comes from me. Got it?! ”

I just looked at him. My heart was thumping. If we were in high school, I would have already thrown my first punch.

“I’m not sure I understand,” I said, with an deferential faux confusion associates in the hunt employ when asshole partners are screaming at them for no reason.

“The client needs to know that I’m integrally involved in this transaction and not just overseeing some junior associate’s work product. Understand now, or was that too abstract for you?! ”

I didn’t respond. I just stared at him, until he walked out.

Here’s the worst part: NLP is actually kind of important and now he hates me. He told an associate friend of mine the next day that I was a “loose cannon.”

A loose fucking cannon?! Really?! Because of a stupid CC! Really?! Just thinking about this makes me insane! I’ve worked my ass off for five years, and this petty son of a bitch is going to compromise—or flat out ruin—my chance at partner over this!?

If I didn’t have a fat student loan tab, I would have kicked his chubby ass right then and there. (Yes, I’m exaggerating. A little. And yes, I’m angry as hell and completely irrational. You would be too, if you were in the hunt and some d-bag called you out for something so petty.)

It’s times like these that I’m really glad I went to a top-five school, made law review and billed 2100 hours a year for the past five years. Now I suppose that the only good news about no longer being in the hunt is that I don’t have to care what assholes like NLP think of me anymore. So in a way, this whole Cc debacle was a victory.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469024)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:13 PM
Author: shimmering excitant faggot firefighter theatre

Yeah, I'm sure the partner is the nerdy one given that you took the time to write all of this shit out.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469053)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:15 PM
Author: gaped kink-friendly point

Eat a bag of dicks.

(Was that short enough for you?)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469060)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:18 PM
Author: shimmering excitant faggot firefighter theatre

(loose cannon)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469068)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:19 PM
Author: Plum supple field telephone



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469070)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:20 PM
Author: umber forum mediation



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469074)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:21 PM
Author: aromatic mauve weed whacker generalized bond



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469080)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:51 PM
Author: 180 zombie-like box office messiness



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469155)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 2:26 AM
Author: marvelous site dysfunction

Look who's here, the loser of losers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469549)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 5:08 AM
Author: buff hyperventilating trailer park knife

what is wrong with you?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469677)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 12:26 AM
Author: dashing blood rage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469264)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 12:31 AM
Author: Fragrant garrison codepig



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469295)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 12:35 AM
Author: stimulating persian



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469305)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 2:14 AM
Author: Vigorous orchestra pit associate



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469531)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 2:16 AM
Author: buff hyperventilating trailer park knife



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469534)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 3:17 AM
Author: out-of-control candlestick maker



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469614)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 8:15 AM
Author: swashbuckling lime lettuce



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469852)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:01 AM
Author: disrespectful impressive location



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469963)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 11:33 AM
Author: saffron property



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36470551)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:19 PM
Author: Flesh balding water buffalo church



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36471006)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 8:15 AM
Author: swashbuckling lime lettuce



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469851)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:12 PM
Author: Impertinent Boltzmann Place Of Business

Are you serious? Spent 7 years in a top ten big law firm and never had anything like this happen. Most mad a partner ever got was when I told a client she was on vacation when she was working remotely.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469044)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 12:29 PM
Author: hot stage

OP is not flame. I didn't make it seven months at my firm before hearing multiple times about the importance of properly ordering names on the to line of emails by seniority.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36470787)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:17 PM
Author: Plum supple field telephone

apart from law being generally TTT, it must suck working for those who were unliked dweebs in HS

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469067)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:19 PM
Author: umber forum mediation

If your boss is in DC I’ll punch him for you.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469073)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:24 PM
Author: Provocative hell

Man is a writer floating an idea.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469094)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:29 PM
Author: Exciting effete sweet tailpipe resort

This is TLS copypasta

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469106)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:33 PM
Author: gaped kink-friendly point

I am the Picasso of copypasta

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469117)



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Date: July 20th, 2018 11:47 PM
Author: Green arousing brunch

u know this used to be a law bort

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469145)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 2:10 AM
Author: histrionic seedy idea he suggested new version

2008 is not coming back

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469524)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 11:12 AM
Author: Nighttime big idiot



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36470468)



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Date: July 22nd, 2018 1:14 AM
Author: Green arousing brunch



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36473661)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 12:24 AM
Author: slimy comical market genital piercing

Not sure if this is flame, but "very much in the hunt for partnership" sounds like a line of horseshit that they tell people that they aren't planning to make partners so that they'll consent to being worked to death.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469257)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 8:57 AM
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(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469950)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:47 AM
Author: Dun nursing home international law enforcement agency



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36470104)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 11:28 AM
Author: Contagious house sandwich

(Sherlock Holmes)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36470528)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 12:31 PM
Author: hot stage

He is very much in the hunt if he continues billing 2250+ each of the next five years and brings in his own clients and the economy doesn't tank and he doesn't get one wrong moved.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36470798)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 12:34 AM
Author: Razzle Station

smoke some more crystal meth

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469302)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 2:25 AM
Author: Appetizing stage

http://bitterempire.com/cc-this-bitch/

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469547)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 12:12 PM
Author: motley shivering dilemma crotch

Wtf? Did they just steal from us?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36470701)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 3:20 AM
Author: Poppy Alcoholic Factory Reset Button

This really isn't written in an xo style. Seems fraud

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469618)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 8:14 AM
Author: spectacular ticket booth

Why would a litigation partner send a client a term sheet?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469848)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 9:00 AM
Author: curious pearly headpube

have you found any secrets to smoking weed in a red roof inn?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36469961)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 10:13 AM
Author: Dull love of her life

How do you put someone else's name in the "from" line of an email?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36470226)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 10:19 AM
Author: Exciting effete sweet tailpipe resort

(Guy about to get shitcanned for inadequate Outlook skills)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36470255)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 11:31 AM
Author: Drab cumskin fanboi

Its a permissions thing. Its a dropdown menu feature if you have permission to access his inbox.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36470542)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:02 PM
Author: Dull love of her life

Ok, got it, thanks. Yeah, my secretary has access to my inbox and occasionally I'll ask her to send an email or meeting invite for me. The "from" line will have my name but the email header also says something like "sent from <Hombre's Secretary> on behalf of Hombre 3000."

But I've never given any associates who work for me such access and I'd never expect them to do that when emailing a client. Pretty sure I've never seen a partner at my firm do that, but who knows.



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36470941)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 12:04 PM
Author: Wonderful rehab cuckold

This was my first thought, too.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36470654)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 3:11 PM
Author: vivacious jade background story



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36471451)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 12:16 PM
Author: carnelian party of the first part university

this is at least the third time this screed has been posted here

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36470721)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:15 PM
Author: hyperactive thriller lodge

It’s about ten years old and has been posted more than 20 times.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36470982)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 1:31 PM
Author: Underhanded hairraiser stead feces

180 moniker

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36471032)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 7:48 PM
Author: violet twinkling uncleanness azn

you posted this here already

http://law.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=3630362&mc=43&forum_id=2&PHPSESSID=82d9597152b8e687a6af6d06cbd65e87#33426277

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36472544)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 7:51 PM
Author: violet twinkling uncleanness azn

and here

http://www.xoxohth.com/thread.php?thread_id=2246963&mc=57&forum_id=2&PHPSESSID=4a5f014e554b8cad58a06cf0ac9f1e84#23131737

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36472550)



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Date: July 21st, 2018 7:51 PM
Author: orange space

BIGLAW needs Slack.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4031420&forum_id=2#36472551)