Taking the thrill of "first" away from you sucker!

what % of all-nighters in Big Law are truly necessary? i'm going with less than 50% (in litigation, at least)

Davis Polk has an "R&R" room with a bed or two in it.

My firm has almost 200 nap rooms ... we call them offices ...

we even have sponsors for our napping ... we call them clients.

Nap = Not A Partner

When I used to work at SASMF, they had a room set up with some beds for naps, etc. This was back at 919 third - not sure what they have at 4ts.

Holy Smokes- What is that guy doing to his nuts?

Cravath has nap rooms, but they are more like all-nighter rooms

I'm fine with naps, but not if you take off your pants and shove an ice pack between your legs. Lat, that picture might be the most disgusting thing I've ever seen on ATL . . . next to Halvorsen that is.

GDC Palo Alto had a nap room when I worked there - can't say if it's still there, but I imagine it is. Sort of a depressing little setup (small room, no windows, just a twin bed and bedside table), but I guess such a thing would tend to be.

I'd rather sleep in my office, anyway.

The fact that a firm has a nap room should make you run like hell.

I used to go down to the parking garage and take naps in my car. That worked pretty well, although I suspect I may have been spotted once by a partner. He didn't say anything as far as I know.

Wachtell doesn't have nap rooms? I figured that if any firm did, Wachtell would.

We have a nap room. Mine is called my office with the door closed.

I live a 15 min. walk from the office. I avoid napping at the office at all costs. As horrible as it sounds, I really recommend living close to the office to anybody for whom its practical.

Construct a shelf-bed under your desk and leave a full cup of coffee on your desk whenever you're using it or otherwise unproductively occupied. People think you must be real busy if you leave a full cup of coffee behind.

Empty calories and a little male curiosity, eh, Georgie?

I second the living close. I used to live within walking distance and I loved those days when I had enough time to walk home, eat lunch, and then enjoy a nice 15 minute siesta on my couch.

Seriously? You want to nap in a twin bed with a bedside table that any number of partners (given enough booze and a willing summer associate) might have utilized for their own personal enjoyment?? Disgusting. Sleep under your desk. Much cleaner.

"If medical residents who are on-call get nap rooms, why can't Biglaw lawyers?"

Um, because we are not saving lives?

DPW has nap rooms with cots which are supposedly for if you don't feel well

wow, these posts are gettin pathetic now

it's all about napping in the office. i did that a few times this summer, and fully expect to do that a few times as an associate as well.

Cleary has a "nurse's room" with cots, hidden away somewhere.

For napping purposes I would MUCH prefer having an office that (1) locks and (2) has a couch. Which firms give associates such "perks?"

Cahill has just set up an associate lounge -- 52" plasma screen HD TV (with cable package), DVD player, and microwave. Wireless Internet access to follow. The suite is accessible only to associates. Partners have been advised to steer clear of recruiting associates from the lounge, ha ha.

Mayer Brown Chicago has one, but finding the key is a mystery.

ropes in boston also has some "first-aid" rooms with cots. if you open the door to one anytime during the day, you'll usually find someone napping.

I'm with the Sidley troll. That's a pretty disgusting picture.

We have a huge room with lots of sleeping space--it's called the morgue. Go take a dirt nap or get back to billing you pansies.

Latham DC has a nap room

I recently found out that we have a "quiet room" with a twin bed. Apparently it is quite the secret, as partners who have been here for years hadn't heard of it.

Wait, are we talking "nap" or are we talking "sleep". I never took a nap in the office for an afternoon. I have never worked in a firm where it was expected, encouraged or you would not have gotten a huge amount of crap if they caught you at it.

But I have slept in the office. We did not have a nap room but there were several options.
1) the sofas in the partner's offices
2) The very comfy sofas in the reception area
3) The super comfy fold out foam chair in the paralegal's work room. Apparently they had lobbied for a bed and the firm turned them down so they got a "chair" instead. The firm was too dumb to realize it converted into a bed.
4) The aerobed on the floor of my office.

I never used any of these suring business hours though. I would have loved to, but it was not encouraged.

Skadden DC has a "wellness" room, but you have to call HR and tell them you;re using it, which kind of intimidates people out of doing so

Wilmer DC has a "sick" room that associates use for napping. I think you have to get a key from someone though. Occasionally its left unlocked overnight for people needing to crash for a couple hours.

Kilpatrick Stockton has a nap room in their Raleigh office, but not in all of the their offices:

http://www.newsobserver.com/104/story/559773.html

MoFo has glass office doors so you can't even nap in your office.

DPW has a nap room as well as 2 shower rooms -- I used both, but the nap room is particularly good if you're horribly hungover and just need to snooze for an hour or two.

You've inspired me to muse about Nap Room Ethics for (Aging) Lawyers. See
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2007/08/22/nap-room-ethics-for-lawyers/

You got me thinking, and I've concluded it is an ethics violation for any law firm with "older" lawyers to fail to supply a Nap Room. See "nap room ethics for lawyers" - http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/ethicalesq/2007/08/22/nap-room-ethics-for-lawyers/