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i vote coincidence. what value could paul hastings have in placing its name in front of the POOR masses? i bet that 99.9999999999999% of the people who saw the movie who have no idea what paul hastings is, and those who do know probably didn't even notice.

The Detroit federal courthouse was also in Transformers. They were filming on the street in front of the building, where I spent a few hours one day watching them explode a bunch of crates on the back of a flat-bed truck. It was awesome (although Lat, please tell me that flat-bed explosion was not Optimus Prime)... Apparently Michael Bay really likes filming in Detroit. Is it the lure of the abandoned buildings, or the 'friendly' nature of Detroit's people? Who can say...

For sure, this was intentional. Think of the demographic to whom a product placement in transformers would especially appeal. Let's just say PH's Palo Alto office better be ready.*

Leak the memo!

*jk

Does PH rep any of the production companies or studio? They would have had to get permission to use the logo.

Paul Hastings is so ghetto. I still remember the unprofessional, junior associate tool they sent to us for 2L interviews. The only thing he could talk about was how excited he was to be sent to the Paris office.

thank god I'm not the only nerd who noticed

Any shots of Loyola 2L handing out resumes in front of the building, and having his car crushed by an autobot?

Product placement? The dorks going to see Transformers don't need expensive lawyers. They need dates. And to move out of their parent's basements.

What would be way more awesome would be if the Paul Hastings building transformed into a giant, evil, corporate lawyer robot.

Oh, now I miss Loyola2L. Please come back. Even if you're a 3L (or barista).

11:18 - A Biglaw Transformer would be great. His power could be to shoot reams of paper at his targets burying them in an avalanche of motions.

10:26 - I bet the unprofessional associate was a graduate of your law school. That's how most firms pick interviewers.

What was ghetto sending a junior associate? I'd rather have a fellow associate conduct an interview than a clueless, socially retarded partner.

When a partners picks an associates, we tend to get little "mini-me". I don't want to be around a 2L version of any of the partners in my group. They are gunners who "love the law" and think it is the most noble thing any person could do with his life.

Whatevs! They also get their building in every episode of America's Next Top Model (right before Tyra and the judges discuss the girls). AND they were featured for like 5 weeks at the end of HEROES when the climatic battle occurred -- the courtyard battle in front of that HIDEOUS red dna piece of "art" is in the courtyard of the PH LA building. They told us once that they signed the lease with the right to have the name on the building for a premium and that it was worth it for prestige -- the landlord had tried to renegotiate because it made it harder to lease other floors to other law firms but the partnership didn't want to lose the recognition. So maybe not product placement, maybe just smart negotiating?

Thanks for one of the greatest laughs of my career. I am the "tool" at Paul, Hastings to whom you refer. Just for the record, I went to Duke and at the time was a 6th year associate (but thanks for the compliments as to my youthful apperance). And just for the record, you must have gone to Duke, Emory, Vanderbilt or Texas.

Good luck being a "tool" at some other law firm. On some level, if you work for a law firm, you are tool just by definition and/or necessity.

Hi Jeremy Hillsman!

This is the tool at PH that is referred to above: http://www.paulhastings.com/professionalDetail.aspx?ProfessionalId=272

For the record, Jeremy is actually a pretty nice guy. He's far more down to earth than most lawyers I know, and though he's smart he's far from being a self-aggrandizing gunner.

This is the so-called "tool" at PH that is referred to above: http://www.paulhastings.com/professionalDetail.aspx?ProfessionalId=272

For the record, Jeremy is actually a pretty nice guy. He's far more down to earth than most lawyers I know, and though he's smart he's far from being a self-aggrandizing gunner.

The Transformers!
More than meets the eye!

Autobots wage their battle to destroy
The evil forces of the Deceptions!

The Transformers!
Robots in disguise!

The Transformers!
More than meets the eye!

The Transformers!

Something evil's watching over you
Comin' from the sky above
And there's nothing you can do!

Prepare to strike
There'll be no place to run
When your caught within the grip
Of the evil Unicron!

Transformers!
More than meets the eye!
Transformers!
Robots in disguise!

Strong enough to break the bravest heart
So we have to pull together
We can't stay worlds apart

To stand divided we will surely fall
Until our darkest hour
When the light will save us all!

Transformers!
More than meets the eye!
Transformers!
Robots in disguise!
Transformers!

Autobots wage their battle
To destroy the evil forces
Of the Decepticons!

It's judgment day and now we've made our stand
And now the powers of darkness
Have been driven from our land

The Battle's over but the war has just begun
And this way it will remain til the day when all are one

Transformers!
Transformers!
Transformers!
Transformers!
More than meets the eye!

Ahh, the "I'm better than you" mentality manifests itself in a contest to remember every last word of the Transformer's theme song (or to find it on the internet and reproduce it here). Classic lawyerly behavior.

Paul Hastings represents Marvel Entertainment, which produced some of the Transformers comics. Maybe that is the link...

Paul Hastings has secured the rights to have the building transform into a big kick-ass corporate biglaw transformer in the sequel. It's not clear whether it will be an autobot or decepticon, but it's also rumored that other biglaw buildings will be picking sides and appearing in the sequel.

Corporate biglaw transformers = the Decepticons, and public interest/legal aid transformers = the Autobots?

I seem to recall that building showing up in Alias all the time too -- it's just a well-placed sign for pans of the LA skyline, methinks.

Everyone,

Sorry for being away. I have been harassing the career services office in an attempt to get OCIs. Don't worry though, I'll be back in September posting during class/ in the law library again.

Warmest Regards,

Loyola 3L

who cares if 99.99999999999999% of the people don't know what the building was. my mom works in that tower and that was the coolest thing about the movie, telling my mom her office was there. =) i was excited to see it. and yes, it would have been amazing if the building itself also turned into a transformer.

Hey, don't hate on people who went to see Transformers. The hot girl was completely worth it.