first, suckas.

Very Prestigious Lat.

Good interview.

non-substantive comment: consider hiring a make-up artist for your next appearance.... your face was very shiny.

good work man! "must read blog" ... i love it.

lat to 190k

Excellent job, Lat.

Looking good Lat! Well spoken too. Top notch all around.

However, I really wish you would have mentioned tier 2 misery when asked about the law student market.

Oh well.

good interview - but why do you keep looking stage right? what was over there.

Good interview overall Lat.
However:
re difference between SAs and Ass, how could you forget to mention the sheer number of billiable hours??

You guys need to stop criticizing Lat. The interview was a 9/10. You don't want to look too plastic on TV.

Great job Lat!!

Lat,

Please do a Midwest recruiting thread.

Thanks.

David - I did not look at the video because you looked like a bloated catfish roasting in the August sun in the still shot.

Make-up artist + -20lbs.

Great job Lat!!

That interviewer was pretty clueless, but I think Lat dropped the ball on one question.

When asked why are associates such a hot comodity, when they are a dime a dozen, Lat responded that law school class sizes have remained static.

That's only half the story. The real reason is because law firms are built on an up-or-out model. People can't stay fourth-yeard their entire life. Some would be happy not getting any more responsibility and making $210,000 forever, but that's not an option. As long as big firms pay people by graduation year and have a business model designed to cause death by billlable hour, they'll always need fresh bodies to replace those who don't make the cut or want off the hamster wheel.

I thought you did a good job Lat. I can see why you got hired to the appellate division of the US Atty's office in NJ. Nice work.

The Lat-attack was on his game.

I'm just disappointed he didn't work Aqua-girl in there somehow.

Great interview! And contrary to 8:27, I think you looked adorable...

Waaaay to go Donnie, er, I mean Lat!

I have to say, I'm impressed. Great interview.

Lat looked less shiny on The Charlie Rose Show. Maybe the CR make-up artist was better.

The clip is here (Lat is around the 42:00 mark):

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5040663876173826383

It's getting close to the end of the summer. How about a thread on negative summer experiences (longest hours, etc)? There are quite a few of us who have not enjoyed our summer associateships.

Gotta love how the guy called them "summer interns" at the end.

Good interview Lat. Shame my firm only fed me baba ganoush during my summer, and occasionally some Tang.

11:20 = Simpson summer?

huh. i always thought lat was a woman.

Lat,

You should have said the going rate was $200k... start another round of raises.

Ya, maybe I've got a snob gene in me somewhere, but it always rubbed me the wrong way when people called it an internship, or called me an intern.

"You should have said the going rate was $200k... start another round of raises." rofl

at what point will lat begin to demand tithes from the newly enriched junior associates?

Is it just me, or do all Yalies seem to talk like Lat?

I'd have paid good money if you'd told them the real scoop about summer associates:

>> But, the real excitement of course is going to come at the end of the summer, during Sexual Awareness week. We import two hundred hookers from around the world, and each camper, armed with only a thermos of coffee and two thousand dollars cash, tries to visit as many countries as he can. The winner of course is named King of Sexual Awareness week and is allowed to rape and pillage the neighboring towns until camp ends. <<

Lat - very articulate and interesting segment. Well done.

1:01 - I was thinking the exact same thing!

"Is it just me, or do all Yalies seem to talk like Lat?"

Lat talks like most everyone I know. They're definitely not from yale.

Make a post on Maryland law firms with emphasis on Baltimore/Bethesda.

Great job, David.

Excellent job!

Lat, please confirm the increases at Hunton and K&L Gates in DC.

Lat, a little shine control makeup goes a LONG way.

Lat,

You're the man! Great interview!

A weakling weighing ninety-eight pounds

Will get sand in his face when kicked to the ground.

And soon in the gym with a determined chin,

The sweat from his pores as he works for his cause...

Will make him glisten... and gleam

And with massage, and just a little bit of steam

He'll be pink and quite clean

He'll be a strong man. Oh honey...

But the wrong man.

He'll eat nutritious high protein and swallow raw eggs.

Try to build up his shoulders, his chest, arms, and legs.

Such an effort if he only knew of my plan.

In just seven days, I can make you a man.

He'll do press-ups, and chin-ups, do the snatch, clean and jerk.

He thinks dynamic tension must be hard work.

Such strenuous living I just don't understand

When in just seven days, oh baby, I can make you a man.

9:23, your long winded and demeaning poem makes me wonder why you felt compelled to expend so much effort in hating and making fun of Lat?

Maybe you should spend some time looking in the mirror to expose why his success threatens you so much.

10:11, get a clue. 9:23 did a simple cut-and-paste of the lyrics of a well-known song from a well-known musical about transvestites, transylvania, Brad, Janet.... He did NOT expend much effort, and it ISN'T a poem.

Nice to be culturally illiterate, I guess. BTW, can I have fries with that?

Great job Lat, keep up the good work

Lat is quite articulate.

Lat, you look all sweaty. You need makeup

Great job, Lat. You were poised and articulate albeit a bit shiny (hey, no one is perfect).

No, he has that Yalie cadence down to a T. Yalies *do* seem to all talk the same way.

Lat: Try Clean & Clear Oil Absorbing Sheets

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Chill out, 10:11. I cannot say enough good things about Lat. The RHPS song I posted was meant as a tongue-in-cheek tribute to him.

Intergenerational agreement: Lat=Cool.

But, seriously, references to "square" and "the Rocky Horrow Picture Show?" How old are you?

Nice interview. Sweet gig you got going, Lat...except for the abuse you have to put up with. That said, you DO say in some of your posts "well, I don't feel bad posting this guy's name or email because they sent the email to a listserv and can have no expectation of privacy any more." So, in the same vein, I guess you're a public figure, and have to put up with the shit that goes along with it. When do we get papparazzi following Lat showing him in his skivvies, or Lat getting pissed off at them, a la Sarkozy?

There was a commenter posting here under the name "Lat Stalker," who had sightings of Lat at restaurants and bars around DC.

Lat didn't delete these comments (even though they were off-topic). I'm guessing Lat doesn't mind. He might even like the attention. (Even the abuse is a form of attention.)

What is so bad about a little oil? Isn't it a good thing? People with dry skin get wrinkles sooner, don't they?

Lat looked nervous as hell, the way his eyes kept darting stage right. ABC probably had a broadcast monitor there, and it's not unusual for interviewees to do that. Still, with the shiny face, the jumping eyes, and the Yalie cadence, he seemed a little skeezy, like a Watergate witness being interviewed on live TV just after giving grand jury testimony.

Even so... I suck because Lat is living a blogger's life while I toil in my office.

Hey everyone, I'm back!

Maybe the eyes "darting stage right" is a nervous tic. Lat did it a lot in the Charlie Rose Show clip too (@ 11:16 PM).

But yeah, 1:30, it's not a bad life: appearing on television, writing for the New York Times op-ed page, and working from the beach (according to Lat's Facebook status).

Intelligent, articulate, informative -- bravo David, that didn't even seem like network television.

My favorite is his description of "doc review." They might be sent to a room full of "documents" to "review" them; like looking for a "needle in the haystack."

Okay, is that side-talking thing he does for affect or is it a physical disability? You know, how his lips slide to one side after he pronounces a word. I've known a few of those people, and I never understood it.

Someone please explain!!!

1:19: That's true. So do white people. Everybody knows that "black don't crack."

"David - I did not look at the video because you looked like a bloated catfish roasting in the August sun in the still shot."

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Posted by: Please | August 6, 2007 08:27 PM

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Ha! That's the funniest thing I've read in a long time!