alienating the associates?
Bruce MacEwan at Adam Smith Esq explains why BigLawassociates — even “across the pond” — have such a highrate of attrition and dissatisfaction. “The fundamental problemis simple: It’s taking longer and longer for fewer and fewerassociates to make partner.” We all knew that, but Bruceand Bill Henderson developed a correlation analysis basedon last year’s AmLaw associate satisfaction survey. And:“What we found is that, across the board, PPP (profitsper partner) is strongly negatively correlated with everymeasure of associate satisfaction—at highly statisticallysignificant levels.”That’s right: the more partner-vampires suck blood fromtheir young, the fewer of them survive. Because associates arethe future of the legal profession, Bruce prays the profession willfind a solution. I’d like to suggest to BigLaw associates feelingqueasy over their career choice that hoping partners will becomeless greedy is foolish. Start taking stock of your life and values,and take control of your career, younguns. If you need moremotivation see prior posts here on Ivan Illy Esq, the Road to L,and Prof. Schiltz. If you think alternative billing will save yourbacon, check out “chronomentrophobia“.the tethered dogwatches the guide dogenter a deli
complimenting lawyers?Prof. Marc Galanter of U. Wisconsin Law, wants us to belive thatit is “a badge of status for lawyers to be seen as able to ‘withstandthis firestorm of jokes'” that engulfs us. (St.Louis Post-Dispatch,“Get used to jokes, author tells law students, Oct. 3, 200; via jb2b).The professor also links the supposed increase in lawyer jokes tothe fact that “the percentage of cases that actually led to a trial fellprecipitously, he said. That cuts laymen – the juries – out of thepicture and adds to a public perception that lawyers control every-thing.” I think we came a bit closer to the nub here. If the rest ofhis upcoming book, “Lowering the Bar: Lawyer Jokes & Legal Culture,”is similarly misguided, I think the f/k/a Gang will resist the urge topurchase it. We do, however, agree with him that law studentsshould just get used to lawyer jokes, and join in on the laughter.That’s far preferable to the suggestion of John C. Keeney Jr.,then president of the D.C. Bar, that the Bar “all join me in refusingto laugh at lawyer jokes” (Washington Lawyer, November 2004).
their laughteris not about mebut would soundjust like thatif it wasfrom Quiet Enoughelitist?Ann Coulter wrote “Harriet Miers went to Southern Methodist UniversityLaw School, which is not ranked at all by the serious law schoolreports and ranked No. 52 by US News and World Report.” Thismade Temple U’s Law professor David Hoffman over at PrawfsBlawgspeculate:Which “serious law school reports” don’t rank SMU?Could it be that Ann Coulter reads Brian Leiter’s Law School Reports?Maybe that’s why she apparently has turned on the President.I must admit, that SMU wasn’t on my East-Coast elitist mind whenI was looking for a law school in the early 1970s. Does any one knowhow SMU was ranked/perceived back then, circa Miers’ matriculation?Full Professorputting another syllablebetween usuncovered?I should have seen it coming, when I named this photo image on mysibs-now-and-then page twins swingers:It came in as the #4 result in the Google search for twins swingers>.I wonder if the querist was actually thinking about Minnesota baseball.Here are some other recent search engine results that need tobe added to our Inadvertent Searchee page:
Oct. 4, 2005jobs skills needed to be a wrestler> A Yahoo Searchchoose our post Career Advice: Be Hands-On Problem Solvers(about the New Job Market created by conputers and the internet)as the #1 and #2 results, out of 79,000, for this query. Naturally,it was a haiku about a sumo wrestler that created the connection.Oct. 1, 2005empty cookie tins> We don’t usually bother mentioning 5th placeresults in Google Searches. But, this one was kind of cool, and linksto a dagosan senryu, in a post about the Texas Cookie Monster suingher neighborly teens:empty cookie tin —the hermitheads to bed“everythingMovie” Sept. 29, 2005everything is eliminated movie> #1 of 1,390,000 results in this GoogleDaily News, captioned “The Novel had depth, but bverything is elminated,” camecame in #2, and my post #1. Weird algorythms, dude.September 13, 2005Is paying tickets online unconstitutional> #1 result out of 226,000 for this (veryTicket.com?” about an online parking ticket fixing service. By the way, I don’tknow if you or Harriet found your answer, Mr. President, but I’d say “no”.heading toward sunset —the migrating geesemake a left turnlearning from the President?Well, check out the non sequitur cartoon from Oct. 10, 2005.
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