{"id":311,"date":"2004-10-22T00:03:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-22T04:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2004\/10\/22\/youre-lead-counsel\/"},"modified":"2004-10-22T00:03:00","modified_gmt":"2004-10-22T04:03:00","slug":"youre-lead-counsel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2004\/10\/22\/youre-lead-counsel\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;You&#8217;re lead counsel&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a416'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To boost associate morale, the partner on my case has decided that<br \/>\nunless we are working under a tight deadline, we can go home of the<br \/>\nweekend.&nbsp; This was probably prompted by a comment by one of my<br \/>\nfellow associates, who dubbed our Portland lives as a &#8220;culture of<br \/>\nalcoholism.&#8221;&nbsp; Expense account + being away from home = culture of<br \/>\nalcoholism.<\/p>\n<p>Though doc review is mind-numbing, I have been entertained by the<br \/>\nfiesty middle-aged woman who coordinates doc review for our local<br \/>\ncounsel.&nbsp; She will chew people out for who do not jump out of<br \/>\ntheir seats when my team requests something.&nbsp; Plus, when she wants<br \/>\nto get something done, she says, &#8220;Don&#8217;t make me break out the<br \/>\nvaseline.&#8221;&nbsp; When she feels like swearing, but cannot, she&#8217;ll say,<br \/>\n&#8220;That grabs me where the hair grows short.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To boost associate morale, the partner on my case has decided that unless we are working under a tight deadline, we can go home of the weekend.&nbsp; This was probably prompted by a comment by one of my fellow associates, who dubbed our Portland lives as a &#8220;culture of alcoholism.&#8221;&nbsp; Expense account + being away [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}