People Who Live in Gingerbread Houses Should Not Throw Jujubees
In the wake of name partner David Bershad's guilty plea, the schadenfreude over the fall of Milberg Weiss continues.
Even ex-paralegals at Milberg Weiss are getting in on the fun. Check out this excerpt, from a comment posted at Roger Parloff's blog:
[F]or anyone who argues that theirs were essentially victimless crimes, how about the competitive advantage Milberg Weiss has enjoyed over firms who really are ethically defending the little guy? It was this idea of evening the playing field for investors and consumers that made me excited about working for Milberg Weiss in the first place, and I passed up more lucrative offers from Defense firms because of my desire to be able to look myself in the mirror every morning. Too bad my employers did not have the same commitment to honesty.Oh, and as an additional note on class, [former name partner Steven] Schulman actually had the nerve to e-mail the entire firm to ask if they wanted to support his children's private school by buying gingerbread houses decorated by the kids for $200 a pop. And then, the night of the firm Christmas Party, he sent out a second-chance e-mail offering them discounted at $150!
Rumor also has it that if you bought Girl Scout cookies from Schulman's daughter, he'd reach into this secret safe he had in his office, and kick back half of the cash to you...
Only Mel Weiss can save Milberg Weiss now [Legal Pad / Fortune]
Earlier: Lawyer of the Day: David Bershad
Comments
First!
Posted by: First | July 11, 2007 01:42 PM
why we he need to reach into his safe for the money. couldn;t he just pick it off the trees growing in his office?
Posted by: Anonymous | July 11, 2007 02:06 PM
Am I alone in finding the people who post "First!" and "WGWAG" incredibly annoying? Lat, these posts should be removed.
Posted by: The Silent Majority | July 11, 2007 02:07 PM
I understand that Lat and other bloggers don't wish to censor or mediate the comments on their blogs. But this policy should apply only to substantive comments; people should be able to say what they want, but only when they are actually saying something. The WGWAG and First posts are so xoxo that they inevitably decrease the value of this blog. Lat should really consider threatening to remove such substanceless crap, and then actually do it if and when idiots continue to post.
Posted by: Also in the Silent Majority | July 11, 2007 02:15 PM
if you guys spent any time on blogs you'd know that people attempting to post "first" first, as well as random trolls such as "wgwag" are just par for the course on teh interwebs.
if you can't take the heat, get the hell off the series of tubes and dump trucks that make teh interwebs work.
Posted by: Anonymous | July 11, 2007 02:19 PM
The safe joke is a reference to actual allegations against Milberg Weiss partners (that one of them had a hidden safe that he used to keep the kickback money).
Posted by: anon | July 11, 2007 02:21 PM
"... [L]at and other bloggers don't wish to censor... comments on their blogs. But this policy should apply only to substantive comments..."
2:15, how exactly is what you're suggesting not censorship? Removal of a post, regardless of its content, is censorship - regardless of whether or not the post is deemed (subjectively) non-substantive.
That said, I agree that "First!" is very xoxo.
Posted by: Anonymous | July 11, 2007 02:26 PM
Just ignore the "First" and "WGWAG" trolls. If you complain about or pay attention to them, you only encourage them.
Posted by: Anonymous | July 11, 2007 02:27 PM
I don't recall ever seeing an XO poster use the "first" shtick.
Posted by: xo reg | July 11, 2007 02:29 PM
censorship is truly problematic only when it is censorship of ideas or points of view. there is absolutely no substance being espoused by these miserable posts of "First" and WGWAG. Delete them for a short bit, and the idiots who get pleasure from such ridiculousness will cease their stupidity, at least here. seriously, what kind of phenomenal losers are these people anyway. oh yeah, I went to law school with about 275 of them. d-bags.
Posted by: Anonymous | July 11, 2007 02:48 PM
WGWAG, Bitches!!!!
Posted by: WGWAG | July 11, 2007 04:13 PM
Well timed, WGWAG.
Posted by: . | July 11, 2007 04:44 PM
1. Don't feed the trolls.
2. Milberg Weiss is scum.
Posted by: Anonymous | July 11, 2007 09:18 PM