Here's One Way To Escape from Biglaw
Lawyers have a pretty decent track record as reality show contestants. We went to law school with Yul Kwon, winner of Survivor: Cook Islands. So maybe this idea isn't as dubious as it might seem:
An alert reader sent us along his very own invitation to be on The Bachelor. '"Apparently they are randomly spamming New York lawyers," says our spy, who works at a top-ten firm. Casting directors are looking for someone "who is successful, good-looking, has an out-going personality, is ready to settle down, is around 6 ft tall and, usually, is between 27 to 36 years of age." Guess you're shit outta luck, shorties!"We've never had an attorney be 'The Bachelor' so we are definitely looking to go that route," the e-mail admits. The producers seem to know a little bit about the law profession — specifically, that good catches are harder to find than you'd think. So they're casting their net wide and offering $5,000 reward to anyone who finds an attorney who could make the show.
If you get cast on the show, please mention that you read about it on ATL -- we'd be happy to collect the five grand.
But though they know a bit about lawyers, it's clearly not enough. Here's the last line of the e-mail: "Please DO NOT forward to the press. We try to make this part of the process as private as possible." Silly casting agents! Don't you know that 50 percent of all law firms' billable hours are spent forwarding private e-mails?
So, so true. Please continue to forward us private emails, early and often.
Update: A reader forwarded us the original email, which appears after the jump.
‘The Bachelor’ Casting for New York Lawyers [New York Magazine]
Comments from our tipster:
Just received this unsolicited message in my firm email. Of course, if they hadn't put the big disclaimer at the bottom about not sending to the press, I probably would have just ignored it and deleted it.Instead, this looks like the way for ATL to score a $5,000 referral bonus if a reader sees the listing and applies.
Or maybe this is a way out of employment for Loyola2L....
And the message:
-----Original Message-----
From: [redacted]
Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2007 8:18 PM
To: [redacted]
Subject: The Bachelor
I'm a casting producer for the television show "The Bachelor" and was wondering if you were single and interested in participating. I'm looking for a great guy to headline our show who is successful, good-looking, has an out-going personality, is ready to settle down, is around 6 ft tall and, usually, is between 27 to 36 years of age. We are interested in all races, religions, etc. We've never had an attorney be "The Bachelor" so we are definitely looking to go that route.
If you are uninterested or taken, please feel free to pass on my information. I have attached our press release with my contact information which can be circulated to any interested individuals.
Should you be able to put me in direct contact with the guy who becomes our next bachelor, you will get a $5000 finder's fee.
Visit our website at www.kasstinginc.com to see what shows we have cast.
**Please DO NOT forward to the press. We try to make this part of the process as private as possible**
Comments
Figgity First beeatches.
Posted by: General First | September 20, 2007 04:35 PM
Hm - have to say that, thinking back on my time in law school and my time in practice, I can't come up with one solitary person to recommend as The Bachelor. For that matter, can't even come up with a single guy to set up my friends with. Good luck, guys - the best-looking man in the profession is the guy suing S&C for harassment, and last I looked, ABC ain't Bravo.
Posted by: Anonymous | September 20, 2007 04:39 PM
How is someone "usually" between 27 and 36 years old?
Posted by: Anonymous | September 20, 2007 04:51 PM
4:39, you sound like a keeper. What's your #?
Posted by: Anonymous | September 20, 2007 04:52 PM
Firsty McFirsty the First !!!!!
Posted by: Mike Litisor | September 20, 2007 04:59 PM
I think I am THE MAN for this. Does anyone have the show host's email? How can I get in touch with them?
Posted by: Anonymous | September 20, 2007 05:01 PM
FIRST!!!
Posted by: Fat Bitch | September 20, 2007 05:02 PM
Most young attorneys are pasty hopelessly out of shape ogre looking trolls by the age of 30. As a profession, we got hit by the ugly stick. But at least I don't fit that mold. And thank goodness legal secretaries at this firm don't either!!!! Especially that smokin' hot number down the hall who has legs that go all the way up the ceiling and the nicest rack in town.
Posted by: Well | September 20, 2007 05:02 PM
I look like 9 miles of bad highway. I guess I'm one of those hunched over hopelessly out of shape masturbators that dominate our profession.
Posted by: Not for me | September 20, 2007 05:04 PM
NY to 190k in alimony after your TV game show wedding fails!
Posted by: someone's gotta do this joke | September 20, 2007 05:15 PM
How exactly is this going to allow anybody to "escape from biglaw?"
How about a little quiz.
1. Do you think past contestants (a) have retired off of all of the money made on the show; (b) have turned their television success into a multi-million dollar movie career; or (c) returned to their pre-bachelor employment, whatever it may have been.
2. Do you think marrying someone will make you (a) less likely; or (b) more likely to tie you down to an overpaying, unrewarding job.
Perhaps it gives you a little notoriety, some great stories and, maybe most importantly, a wife, but I don't see how it delivers you from biglaw.
Posted by: Anonymous | September 20, 2007 05:27 PM
We are interested in all races, religions, etc.
...sexual orientation? All the good-looking guys I know are gay. That'd make an awesome Bachelor.
Posted by: Anonymous | September 20, 2007 05:43 PM
5:27, I can tell you are clearly a successful corporate attorney because everything after your first sentence was redundant.
Posted by: Clause VII(b) | September 20, 2007 05:52 PM
I bet someone from a law school ranked below Fordham does this.
Posted by: Anonymous | September 20, 2007 06:00 PM
5:27 -- it will allow the person to be pushed out of BigLaw because no self respecting firm wants to advertise to its clients that its six-figure associate is professing his undying love to multiple women on a tv show that's overdone its welcome. Name one Bachelor who came out of the show looking good. Hard to do, yes?
Posted by: Anonymous | September 20, 2007 06:01 PM
Let's see a photo or web bio of your "tipster" to see if he fits their criteria.
Posted by: Anonymous | September 20, 2007 06:11 PM
we had an attorney on the apprentice and she came back to work at the firm. so why not a bachelor?
Posted by: Anonymous | September 20, 2007 06:12 PM
Who, Jen Massey? She billed somewhere in the three digits that year, and left CC (of course, CC shut down its last CA office at around the same time). She's now at a 15-atty Century City (LA) firm with something like seven name partners. I call that a big law exit.
Posted by: Anonymous | September 20, 2007 06:38 PM
female law student from chicago kent is on the bachelor this season.
Posted by: Anonymous | September 20, 2007 06:44 PM
hey did y'all know lat went to law school with that survivor dude?
Posted by: Anonymous | September 20, 2007 07:52 PM
7:52, yeah, we did, 'cause he said it in his post.
Posted by: Anonymous | September 20, 2007 09:08 PM
Second!!!!!!!!!!!! SECOND!!!!!!!!!!!!
Seriously.
Posted by: Anonymous | September 20, 2007 09:08 PM
Lat, I read that you went trick or treating at Nixon's house in N.J. What did he give out? Did the Secret Service shoot kids that toilet papered his trees?
Posted by: I am not a crook | September 20, 2007 09:53 PM
Trick-or-Treat, Tricky Dick: Celebrating Halloween With the Late, Great President
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=238530
Posted by: Trick-or-Treat, Tricky Dick | September 20, 2007 10:32 PM
I think it's ridiculous that a Biglaw firm would no-offer a summer associate just for no-rosing another summer on the Bachelor and then calling her a fat bitch. But what I want to know is why wasn't the female summer no-offered for hitting the bachelor summer and pouring her drink on him? There's always a double standard!
Posted by: Anonymous | September 21, 2007 08:49 AM
I agree with 6:01. Law firms would not want this type of publicity. Wasn't someone who was a male suitor on another "romance" reality show canned from his job as a lawyer based on his behavior on the show? It was probably the show where they surprise a hot model type with her choice of 20 geeks!
Also, how many firms would even allow an attorney to take the leave/vacation required to appear on the Bachelor?
Posted by: won't work for Biglaw attorneys | September 21, 2007 11:22 AM
The female law student on the bachelor is from SMU Law School. She gets bounced on the first episode.
Posted by: Anonymous | September 21, 2007 12:01 PM
12:01 - Was it Harriet Miers? Talk about a catch!!!
Posted by: Anonymous | September 21, 2007 12:11 PM
I think the gay bachelor idea would make for a funnier show...I mean, seriously, one really attractive male gay "bachelor" and a bunch of wanna-be life partners getting catty to win him?
Posted by: Anonymous | September 21, 2007 01:14 PM
There is more than one female law student on this bachelor. And they all get bounced the first episode. Apparently this rough and tumble bachelor doesn't like the smart ones...
Posted by: Anonymous | September 21, 2007 02:37 PM
There is more than one female law student on this bachelor.
Posted by: Anonymous | September 21, 2007 02:38 PM