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Date: December 12th, 2017 9:09 PM Author: self-absorbed halford New guy just started at my firm and is handling a substantial discovery project. Super diligent, nice guy clearly trying to make a good impression. A few days ago he asked a female colleague down the hall for a sample (they are the same year) and she apparently told him she didn’t have any samples. He emails me asking who might have a good model. I forward to partner who I know just finished a substantial one. She copies, you guessed it, the female associate, asking her to forward one that they served just a few weeks ago. Guy later came to me confused, mentioning that he already reached out to this person. Should I just let this slide or talk to her? My firm is pretty collegial and her move was total BS, especially to someone who is new. If I bring it up, what’s a good way to go about it? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826635&forum_id=2#34902883) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 9:12 PM Author: Ruddy irate area coldplay fan You should follow her into the bathroom one day, rape her, then choke her to death with your tie.
NOT LEGAL ADVICE |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 9:51 PM Author: Ultramarine Startling Codepig Hominid Good poast/moniker synergy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826635&forum_id=2#34903492) |
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Date: December 13th, 2017 2:53 AM Author: vivacious chrome school cafeteria (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826635&forum_id=2#34906528) |
Date: December 12th, 2017 9:14 PM Author: wonderful university selfie Tell her in person you know about her backstabbing but say you won't tell of course that's the sort of thing that would get her in trouble and you wouldn't want that given you know she would do the same for you. Then collect favor later at convenient time. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826635&forum_id=2#34902983) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 9:20 PM Author: self-absorbed halford I think I would need a better plan. I’m considerably more senior. Trying to collect a favor in this way would make me seem petty and weak. Plus I can’t imagine a scenario where I would need to collect such a favor. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826635&forum_id=2#34903061) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 9:23 PM Author: wonderful university selfie You don't need to imagine a scenario, just collect favors and life will supply situations where you may use them.
As for making you look weak, ha. Who cares how you appear? In any case, you can take the frame of looking out for her etc. |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 9:25 PM Author: Razzmatazz Bisexual Brunch I believe the biglaw employee manual requires you not to do anything proactive or face to face about this but to bring it up to everyone in the group discretely over the next 18 months until her credibility is shattered and her breakfast potential turns into a liquid diet. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826635&forum_id=2#34903108) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 9:26 PM Author: crimson aromatic parlor fanboi what are you talking about. dont say anything to anyone about small stupid shit like that. everyone just do their fucking work jfc (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826635&forum_id=2#34903116) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 9:27 PM Author: Painfully honest prole skinny woman (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826635&forum_id=2#34903119) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 9:42 PM Author: sinister den Cr (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826635&forum_id=2#34903361) |
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Date: December 13th, 2017 2:52 AM Author: Avocado Bespoke National Kitty Cat (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826635&forum_id=2#34906527) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 9:27 PM Author: Lake coffee pot Mid-level associate I knew was put on a doc review project and supposed to be flagging stuff for upcoming depos. A week before the depos, the senior associate asks, "Where's all the other stuff?" He was like, "Uh, what?" She responds, "You were only reviewing the later docs, there were a lot of documents produced previously. You should have asked about that. I can't believe you weren't more proactive. Why didn't you notice this?" He then got pushed out. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826635&forum_id=2#34903124) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 9:56 PM Author: self-absorbed halford That really sucks for that person but this shouldn’t happen that often. Senior associate would typically work with the discovery folks to create the search to create the universe of docs to be reviewed for the depo prep. Sure, mid level can run searches within that universe, but there shouldn’t have been a time period overlooked like this. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826635&forum_id=2#34903540) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 9:33 PM Author: vibrant indirect expression I am gonna betray my shitlaw background, but don't you have a firm database where you can search for these types of things? In this instance, shouldn't be too hard to find the matter the shrew associate worked on and find whatever doc he wants to use. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826635&forum_id=2#34903219) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 9:40 PM Author: self-absorbed halford Yeah, we have a searchable database. Not uncommon for people to reach out directly though. Plus then you know you have the final version and people may provide some useful insight (like a particular rule has changed recently). (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826635&forum_id=2#34903337) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 9:37 PM Author: fishy yarmulke striped hyena you should pwn that fucking bitch (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826635&forum_id=2#34903285) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 9:41 PM Author: sinister den Lol at women (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826635&forum_id=2#34903345) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 9:41 PM Author: Mentally Impaired Principal's Office Have a convo with the new guy. Tell him he is was going to get fucked but you saved him. Give him the precedent doc and mentor him through the drafting. Tell him to tell no one. Have a convo with the female. Tell her she fucked up and that partner X knows it would jeopardize his client. Say you took the fall. mentor her through her fallout. Have a convo with the supervising partner. |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 9:43 PM Author: fishy yarmulke striped hyena (larry david building a house of cards) (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826635&forum_id=2#34903365) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 9:43 PM Author: Deep corner puppy (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826635&forum_id=2#34903370) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 9:47 PM Author: self-absorbed halford First para seems highly credited and I will do this. Not the second though. Seems extreme to contend that her undermining a colleague in this fashion would jeopardize a client relationship much higher up the chain. Maybe I’m just not reading that right. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826635&forum_id=2#34903436) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 9:44 PM Author: Mentally Impaired Principal's Office Have a convo with the new guy. Tell him he is was going to get fucked but you saved him. Give him the precedent doc and mentor him through the drafting. Tell him to tell no one. Have a convo with the female. Tell her she fucked up and that partner X knows it would jeopardize his client. Say you took the fall. mentor her through her fallout. Have a convo with the supervising partner. Give yourself a management role on your characterization of the project and explain that the new guy was clueless and that the female tried to fuck him. That won't happen under your watch. Make partner next year with the support of the associates and the partnership. |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 9:52 PM Author: sable address preventive strike One time they were serving afternoon refreshments and this guy went a grabbed the last lemon square when I clearly was going for it and instead I had this shitty oatmeal cookie. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826635&forum_id=2#34903503) |
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Date: December 12th, 2017 9:54 PM Author: wonderful university selfie I had a partner who was having an affair tailed and obtained incriminating photos. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826635&forum_id=2#34903516) |
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Date: December 13th, 2017 2:51 AM Author: razzle canary sandwich Associate A and associate B have an email chain going on discussing certain documents. Associate B edits email chain and forwards to partner, removing A from the chain and also removing parts of the email to essentially take credit for associate A's analysis and make it seem like A was incompetent. Partner then forwards email chain to associate A asking wtf was up. Associate A forwards the real email chain to partner. Associate B was out of the firm within a year. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826635&forum_id=2#34906519) |
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Date: December 13th, 2017 2:56 AM Author: Avocado Bespoke National Kitty Cat ljl. sounds like B would have been out eventually due to e.g. choking on their own saliva or sticking their finger in an electrical outlet (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826635&forum_id=2#34906533) |
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Date: December 13th, 2017 3:01 AM Author: shimmering hairless theatre private investor Associate B seems like an idiot to try something like this.
Unless, TWIST: Associate A actually was actually the incompetent one, and his was the made up email chain |
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Date: December 13th, 2017 3:10 AM Author: razzle canary sandwich A was one of the better biglaw attorneys in my class. B never caught on with another firm and is now doing some kind of pseudo-shitlaw jd preferred work. B is also a legit middling IQ dolt who strivered his way from a mediocre top-50ish undergrad to a top-20ish law school to biglaw, which would be fine for lasting 3-4 years in biglaw if he didn't ruin his reputation early on. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826635&forum_id=2#34906556) |
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Date: December 13th, 2017 3:15 AM Author: shimmering hairless theatre private investor lol at the thought of Associate B literally licking his lips as he's editing this shitty email chain thinking he's going to *really show the partners* about Associate A (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826635&forum_id=2#34906565) |
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Date: December 13th, 2017 3:22 AM Author: razzle canary sandwich yeah he was always pulling petty shit that in retrospect looks pretty ridiculous
once asked all of us on a case what we would wear for an important internal team meeting /w head partner, then one-upping us all with something more formal
on a different case where he was working in tandem with a couple of other juniors on a project, dragged them out for drinks, got them semi-drunk, then said he was going back to bill (turned out he'd actually been drinking non-alcoholic drinks posing as mixed drinks the whole time)
at any firm event would only suck up to / corner rainmakers or other partners and ignore all associates |
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Date: December 13th, 2017 8:15 AM Author: self-absorbed halford Man that person sounds soo annoying. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826635&forum_id=2#34907001) |
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Date: December 13th, 2017 3:03 AM Author: vivacious chrome school cafeteria LOL jfc (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=3826635&forum_id=2#34906543) |