Yes, as a matter of fact I do :)

Wow. Just wow.

Latty Boy is going all out in selling his soul for some quick advertising $s...

Lat, will you please stop with this lateral link trolling for data nonsense surveys???? what's next, porn pop-ups?? This blawg is in the gutter this week.

TOTAL FAIL.

Gallion OUT!

just when you think Lat & Co. cant stoop any lower, they one up themselves yet again.

I have to agree the polling for Lateral Link is awful. Put it in the margins if you have to do it at all.

Your presentation of results is meaningless to me. How about posting the percentage of total respondants who worked on any given holiday?

I realize that bloggers have no journalistic cred- but you should still disclose what you get paid to post... not that any of the ATL faithful has issue with you needing to eat. Lord knows you can't go from biglaw to McDonald's- just a little heads up would be nice

The passover / yom kippur categories are silly - if it means something to you then you didn't work - period. It's just that for most people it doesn't mean very much. Also, what about all the other Jewish holidays that you can't work on? I am orthodox and don't work on any of them, no matter what happens.

if you hate the ads so much, why don't you just buy a subscription to the site...oh wait...c'mon people, lat's gotta make money somehow....

Ok, judging from the holiday survey, biglaw doesn't care about:

1. YOU
2. Blacks
3. Jews
4. US
5. Your family

Boo! Get off the stage!

i'm a big fan of this site but can you please start being as funny as bess levin or hire someone who can be? you'd get a lot more readers.

The survey won't accept responses from anyone who graduated from law school before 1990. How TTT. Actually, the whole Lateral Link survey widget concept is very TTT.

My question is, why are you all bitching about Lateral Link surveys when you could be talking about how Bill Clinton was heckled by a robot in Iowa demanding that he apologize to Sister Souljah?

I am actually interested in knowing the results of this latest survey. Not so much the holiday one.

Latty Boy, Please automate the deletion of posts that want you to automate the deletion of certain posts. If you want, I will write you a few snippets of code to automate the process - it's really super easy.

4:50 - Uhhh, there are tons of Jews in biglaw and they call the shots. Just like Hollywood, so I have no clue what you're talking about.

4:49: Agreed. I don't work on Good Friday. Period. If somebody wants to fire me over it, so be it.

My foot soldiers who go up and down Wilshire Boulevard run Hollywood, not the Jewish Mafia. HTH.

5:13,
You're a retard. 4:50 was pointing at the survey and how many people worked on Jewish holidays.

They do realize that whole number data like this is pretty much worthless without knowing how many people took the survey. Sure it is nice to know that twice as many people work on Thanksgiving than say Christmas but it doesn't really say that much.

They do realize that whole number data like this is pretty much worthless without knowing how many people took the survey. Sure it is nice to know that twice as many people work on Thanksgiving than say Christmas but it doesn't really say that much.

5:20: You're the retard, for poster to say biglaw doesn't care about, inter alia, Jews is stupid if there are a lot of jews in biglaw. what jews don't care about themselves? that's stupid. even I care about myself, and i'm full of self-hate and ponder suicide all the time. but then i rationalize that I rather see people like you dead than myself, therefore suicide is a silly option. Your death, on the otherhand, is not.

5:31
Good rant, douchebag.

um, 5:31 sounds like a psycho, possibly also a psycho-killer.

"Your death, on the otherhand, is not"

Lat, either call the police, ban this douchebag for life, or both.

Gallion OUT!

@ fan - if by "funny" you mean "hot" then yes.

@5:31 to two shots in the head!

The numbers are completely worthless unless we know how many people took the survey. Raw numbers without percentages tell us almost nothing.

It would also be good to know how many people worked more than one holiday...for example, how many of the people who worked Christmas also worked on the Fourth of July?

Agree with Nonymo @5:48. Numbers without context are meaningless.

5:00, 5:12 -- good work all around. Lat would like to take a moment to ask that you continue propagating this latest meme.

5:48 - those who worked on Christmas and 4th of July are unpatriotic heathens who need to find Christ and should be banned from this country.

They banned those type of people from my high school all the time, and it was no big deal.

Gallion OUT!

we need the total number of respondents, or to have the data as percentages, to make sense of this

4:50 - funny. WHY don't people understand jokes???

To 4:49(3) - Orthodox Jew

I'm assuming you work at a large law firm. Has anyone (partner, another associate, assignment person) ever said anything to you about missing all those days because of Jewish holidays? What about in Elul, when they're all bunched up? How far in advance do you give them notice, and who do you notify? Just being a curious 1L and wondering how you deal with it.

Better day today, Lat.

Except, of course, for this post. But I guess you gotta pay your bills.

To 4:49(3):

I second 9:04, how do you deal with the holidays in Elul? I've been worrying about that ever since I accepted my offer. Do you work at biglaw? Do you have to work 24/6 to make up for the holidays? Or do you use the holidays as your vacation time?

ANOTHER Lateral Link sponsored survey masked as actual news? This is really sad. The real loser is Above the Law- you can only pretend that your sponsors do not have control over your "news" so many times before you lose complete credibility. Compare Yahoo.com (front page bought and paid for by advertisers; stock level for years) with Google (clearly separating content from advertisement thereby increasing credibility; stock at all time high). So which blog will fill the void when ATL goes the way of pets.com?

Lat (presumably) needs money for rent/mortgage and food, so ads are kind of necessary. Even if some of them are for self-contradictory places like luxury fitness bootcamps.

I don't think 1:40's analogy to Pets.com is appropriate; Lat is not exactly basing his marketing strategy on mailing bags of dog food across the country. And he definitely doesn't have a cute/annoying sock puppet mascot (although there are plenty of sock puppets in the comments, I suspect).

With that said, these "surveys" are blatant marketing tools masquerading as news. But this too is nothing new; newspapers publish advertorials all the time. That doesn't make this survey any less annoying.

Actually, I find it kind of interesting that associates worked on MLK about 2.5x more than they worked on Easter. That's higher than I would've thought.