Tuesday, October 23, 2007

 
Sorry for the long delay between posts. I was trying to paper-train this new dog Ellen DeGeneres gave me. And then the media got involved, took the dog away, my kids were in tears, it's been a rough past few weeks. Ellen's dog controversy makes sense to me. I side with the animal shelter. You can't just give important things away without making sure the recipients meet certain standards. It's the same way with assignments. Associates can't give assignments to their colleagues without getting permission first. Every associate brings a certain set of liabilities to the table, and when I assign someone a project, there's a reason. It's not like all of the associates are interchangeable parts who could all do the monkey-work we give them. It's not like all the associate assignments are garbage that any moron could do if only they put in enough mindless hours staring into their computer screens.

Oh, wait, no, I'm getting assignments mixed up with something else. Suits. They can't trade suits because not everyone is the same size, and some associates are men and some are women and some are neither. So we can't have them trading clothing without permission. But assignments? Who cares, it's all just to keep them busy and ratchet up the client bills, so if someone wants to take someone else's task, I don't care as long as it gets done. And if someone wants to take everyone else's task, great, SuperAssociate can do all the work and still make the same salary and get the same bonus as everyone else, and still have no idea whether or not he's going to make partner until it's too late and he's poured his entire soul into this place.

I overheard two associates talking about how they feel like they have to put their personalities in a box when they come to work every morning. I challenge that on two counts. One, it's a waste of boxes. We need boxes for documents. There will never be enough boxes. The number of documents associates need to sort through is infinite. We need an infinite number of boxes to hold them. Despite the "computer age," everything still goes in boxes. Even computers come in boxes. Two, they should not be coming to work "every morning." There should be nights they never leave. So there should be mornings they are already here and thus do not need to arrive. If there are associates coming to work every morning and leaving every night, we need to give them more assignments, or demand more from the assignments they do have.

The only reason I have time to post today is because a deal I've been working on for the past six and a half years just fell through. A senior associate who's been with the case since the start, and has put almost twenty thousand hours on it, started crying. "So my entire time at the firm has been for nothing, it's a waste," he said. Crybaby. It's not a waste. The client still paid. It's not like anything monumental was going to happen in this guy's life once the deal closed. For him it shouldn't matter. It's a problem when associates get too invested in the work. They're drones. If they care whether or not the deal closes, they know too much. I don't like to even tell my associates the big picture. They don't need to know what they're working toward. Most of them would quit if they knew the secrets our clients have, if they knew the ends we were the means to help our clients achieve. We cash checks from some evil people. But I want to protect my associates. They don't need to know the truth. Partners are the only ones who need to know, because we make enough money that we can drown the truth in expensive luxury goods. It's amazing how much you can forget when you spend your six hour annual vacation on your yacht. It's amazing how much you can forget when you buy black-market sleeping pills and develop a crippling dependency.

My daughter had a birthday last week. I forgot. My wife thought it would be fun to see how long it would take me to remember. It took four days. I walked in on her birthday sleepover party and it still didn't hit me. I threw down my briefcase on top of the half-eaten birthday cake, walked upstairs, swatted aside the balloons, shoved the wrapping paper down in the trash can (or maybe I just told our housekeeper to do it, I can't remember), and collapsed on the fold-out couch (my wife and I have been sleeping separately for a while now), without ever realizing. It was only when I saw she updated her Facebook profile with pictures from the party that I realized what I'd missed. So I put a message on her Wall and hopefully that'll take care of it. I'm going to text her later just to see if she'd logged in yet to read it.

Comments:
be glad your child has facebook to remind you of these things. My 4 year old has yet to figure out HTML programming so I am on my own to remember these "important" dates.
Note to self: have child examined for learning disablity.
 
Times must be hard at your firm. To even *own* a "fold out" couch... I shudder. What, are you slumming it?? You mean to tell me your house doesn't have a guest room (or three) that you could make your own?

Sheesh. Next you're going to drop the bomb that you really practice *public interest* law or something.

Good god, man, pull yourself together.
 
Of course the associate wanted the deal to close... he wanted the deal toy. You should give him a shard of broken glass with the name of the company written on it with a grease pencil.
 
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If you decide you don't want that couch and are going to spend the night in a suite at the Hilton, I'll take it off your hands.

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You had me laughing at the Ellen DeGeneres comment! Then I felt bad. Did the guy really cry, I thought that was something only us women had to deal with. :-)
 
I signed more papers when I adopted my dog than when I bought my house.
 
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"my wife and I have been sleeping separately for a while now"

That will be the reason for you not posting for a long time.
 
I didn't know you could back-date those wall posts. Hmmm...yeah, we didn't go over that in Professional Ethics....

I really love your blog, by the way. Great stuff. Only I can't figure out why you gave Martha Kimes's book the blurb instead of mine...

*tear*

Well, keep up the good work!
 
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Of course the associate wanted the deal to close... he wanted the deal toy. You should give him a shard of broken glass with the name of the company written on it with a grease pencil.
 
Your daughter, at four, is probably more up to speed on computers and the internet than most. My law partner does not even know what face book is, he thought it was a book about painting faces! Does your daughter plan on becoming a lawyer? Many criminal defense?
 
you're an embarrassment to the profession... and clearly a liar given your rudimentary understanding of the workings of these "prestigious" law firms you purport to be working for, not to mention your disgraceful writing skill (i guess being a personal injury lawyer in Kansas gives you plenty of time to write but not enough time to become decent at it)

here's a hint - you're wife isn't sleeping with you because you are a pathetic douche bag... hopefully some people will get to read this comment before you delete it
 
Come on children let's not get personal. You are starting to sound like a bunch of attorneys!
 
I hope everything would be alright..I havent have children but I am daughter of my father,who I really love him.
Your daughter and your family need your love and warm from you more than anything.

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