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hopefulapplicant2 · Post by **hopefulapplicant2** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 10:38 pm

PH has a less than savory reputation. Known for churning. I know of one instance where they lured partners from another major firm, stole their clients and than pushed the partners out. Partners were from UVA, and Columbia. Not a reputable firm.

soj · Post by **soj** » Fri Apr 18, 2014 10:40 pm

hopefulapplicant2 wrote:PH has a less than savory reputation. Known for churning. I know of one instance where they lured partners from another major firm, stole their clients and than pushed the partners out. Partners were from UVA, and Columbia. Not a reputable firm.

what do the schools have to do with anything

bk1 · Post by **bk1** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 12:19 am

soj wrote:
hopefulapplicant2 wrote:PH has a less than savory reputation. Known for churning. I know of one instance where they lured partners from another major firm, stole their clients and than pushed the partners out. Partners were from UVA, and Columbia. Not a reputable firm.
what do the schools have to do with anything

Cause it would have been justified if they were TTTs.

Old Gregg · Post by **Old Gregg** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 12:28 am

This thread is worse than roadkill.

patogordo · Post by **patogordo** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 12:30 am

zweitbester wrote:This thread is worse than roadkill.

^ avoid this guy's firm

Old Gregg · Post by **Old Gregg** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 1:39 am

patogordo wrote:
zweitbester wrote:This thread is worse than roadkill.
^ avoid this guy's firm

A-OK with me

patogordo · Post by **patogordo** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 11:30 am

zweitbester wrote:
patogordo wrote:
zweitbester wrote:This thread is worse than roadkill.
^ avoid this guy's firm
A-OK with me

yea, i know

rad lulz · Post by **rad lulz** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 11:43 am

Is zeeitbester someone from back in the day

Old Gregg · Post by **Old Gregg** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 12:14 pm

rad lulz wrote:Is zeeitbester someone from back in the day

PM'd

patogordo · Post by **patogordo** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 12:29 pm

zweitbester wrote:
rad lulz wrote:Is zeeitbester someone from back in the day
PM'd

was that really necessary? i'm sure someone else would have told him who you were.

Old Gregg · Post by **Old Gregg** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 12:33 pm

patogordo wrote:
zweitbester wrote:
rad lulz wrote:Is zeeitbester someone from back in the day
PM'd
was that really necessary? i'm sure someone else would have told him who you were.

Can we focus on this shit thread rather than on outing a shit poster?

rad lulz · Post by **rad lulz** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 12:36 pm

Mal Reynolds · Post by **Mal Reynolds** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 12:53 pm

He gets in one little fight and his mom got scared. She said "you're changing your username and gonna be all private about it."

Old Gregg · Post by **Old Gregg** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 12:54 pm

Mal Reynolds wrote:He gets in one little fight and his mom got scared. She said "you're changing your username and gonna be all private about it."

I like that a lot actually. Wasn't the motivation for changing though. Just wanted to change it because I didn't find a picture of Will Smith that I liked for my avatar. And Kenny Powers was taken as my other possible handle (though there plenty of good pics for that--it's a shame).

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 1:45 pm

Anonymous User wrote:White & Case. Holland & Knight. Cahill Gordon. Patton Boggs LLP. Be warned.

Why is Cahill on there? They've been doing pretty damn well these last 4-5 years in terms of PPP, bonuses, offer rates, etc.

Anonymous User · Post by **Anonymous User** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 3:10 pm

Tanicius wrote:There are firms that are just douchey. One of my classmates was no-offered by Latham last year because they thought she was "too aloof." No warning, no prior talk about her attitude or interaction with other people. Just bam, good luck to you! Knowing her, she's a person who works hard and keeps her head down. Had nothing to do with financials. It was just a shitty, out-of-nowhere decision, probably because she just wasn't fratty enough for them. I think that's the kind of behavior that the OP wants to catalog here.

Anon b/c I'm confident I summered with above-referenced classmate (Latham LA; Boalt student). Your classmate was no offered because [mod edit: other reasons we probably don't need to go into]. The no offered SA was perfectly nice, and I'm sure a good student. But just because she was surprised by the no offer does not mean the no offer was objectively surprising.

Latham may still merit inclusion ITT. Just not for Tanicius' anecdote.

mod edit: probably best not to air someone else's dirty laundry like this

AntipodeanPhil · Post by **AntipodeanPhil** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 4:31 pm

Anonymous User wrote:
Tanicius wrote:There are firms that are just douchey. One of my classmates was no-offered by Latham last year because they thought she was "too aloof." No warning, no prior talk about her attitude or interaction with other people. Just bam, good luck to you! Knowing her, she's a person who works hard and keeps her head down. Had nothing to do with financials. It was just a shitty, out-of-nowhere decision, probably because she just wasn't fratty enough for them. I think that's the kind of behavior that the OP wants to catalog here.
Anon b/c I'm confident I summered with above-referenced classmate (Latham LA; Boalt student). Your classmate was no offered because [reasons]. The no offered SA was perfectly nice, and I'm sure a good student. But just because she was surprised by the no offer does not mean the no offer was objectively surprising.

Latham recruiting? Either way, I'm sure you were given this information in confidence. Fairly despicable to post it on TLS like this. I'm sure anyone at Boalt will be able to work out who you're talking about.

IAFG · Post by **IAFG** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 4:45 pm

AntipodeanPhil wrote: Latham recruiting? Either way, I'm sure you were given this information in confidence. Fairly despicable to post it on TLS like this. I'm sure anyone at Boalt will be able to work out who you're talking about.

Yes, because summers can't observe each other or gossip.

AntipodeanPhil · Post by **AntipodeanPhil** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 5:04 pm

IAFG wrote:
AntipodeanPhil wrote: Latham recruiting? Either way, I'm sure you were given this information in confidence. Fairly despicable to post it on TLS like this. I'm sure anyone at Boalt will be able to work out who you're talking about.
Yes, because summers can't observe each other or gossip.

Anon states that he/she was told some of the information by the person directly. I'm sure the person didn't say "and please don't write this in a post on TLS," but standards of decency are generally assumed. When I tell people embarrassing personal information, I certainly don't expect them to post it on TLS. Also, you don't "observe" that [EDITED], and if anon was told that as gossip, that doesn't make it okay to post it on TLS, along with enough information to easily identify the person.

El Pollito · Post by **El Pollito** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 5:20 pm

This thread has gotten really creepy and I'm not sure what purpose it serves since all the information here is readily available elsewhere.

IAFG · Post by **IAFG** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 5:22 pm

yeah fair that's sketch. i was just aspily knee-jerk responding to the assumption.

84651846190 · Post by **84651846190** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 5:25 pm

hopefulapplicant2 wrote:PH has a less than savory reputation. Known for churning. I know of one instance where they lured partners from another major firm, stole their clients and than pushed the partners out. Partners were from UVA, and Columbia. Not a reputable firm.

Weird flame.

jbagelboy · Post by **jbagelboy** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 5:47 pm

From the tone of the post, doesn't sound like Anon and this Boalt student were exactly close during their summer together. Probably not told in confidence, more of a through the grapevine thing.

sparty99 · Post by **sparty99** » Sat Apr 19, 2014 6:14 pm

Everyone needs to get over themselves, especially the hoity-toity law students who summered at Big Law firms and failed to get no-offered. We don't care that you survived your dream job at Latham in LA. Please get over yourself.

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