Associate Bonus Watch: The Milbank Memo Is REALLY Fake
Yesterday we requested tips from you about associate bonuses: leaked bonus memos, juicy rumors, etc. Please send this information to us by email, to tips AT abovethelaw DOT com (subject line: "Associate Bonus Watch").
Please send us tips that you believe in good faith to be true. Because if you send us stuff that's fake, we'll find that out when we do our fact-checking.
Take the supposed "bonus memo" of Milbank Tweed. It was purportedly sent out by Christine Wagner, Milbank's director of legal personnel.
We contacted Ms. Wagner by email. Here's her response:
From: Wagner, Christine
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 10:27 PM
To: David Lat
Subject: RE: Milbank "bonus memo"It is not authentic. No such memo has been issued.
Don't f*** with us, fellas. This ain't our first time at the rodeo.
Update: Looking for the REAL Milbank Tweed bonus memo, issued on Friday, December 8? To view it, click here.
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geez, who gives a fuck
Uh, yeah. Because a partner who supposedly wrote the memo, containing confidential information leaked to a *web site* would have no incentive to deny that it was accurate.
What-evah. Your fact checking skillz is not mad.
Duh-Huh, you are a moron:
1. Christine Wagner is not the "partner" who wrote the memo. She's just the head of recruiting around here.
2. ATL also checked with associates at Milbank (see earlier post).
Duh-Huh, maybe you're the Milbank paralegal who was behind this prank. You've been busted.
Now go back to your binder making. I'd like those ready by 2 PM.
"First time at the rodeo"? You are a toolshed.