Wonder why lawyers are alcholics?

1 hour of therapy = $250
1 bottle of Jack = $30

We have superior cost-benefit analytical skills. That is all; nothing to see here.

Looking like a pretty easy week around here for the ole GP. Marin is kicking ass.

Grammar crime rate is down to 0%. Indeed, Marin is much better than Mystal.

Finally, this great blog has been returned error-free to the masses that huddle around their work computers yearning to laugh at snarky jokes and pop-culture references. No longer will 1st year associates have to subject themselves to 8 hours of doc review only to reward themselves with a quick trip to ATL that ends in grammatical disaster!

Things look pretty quiet here. I think I'm going to take a vacation myself to re-energize and prepare for the glorious ass-whooping I will be giving Elie when he comes back.

"We'll try to collect your tips, and figure out just how many firms are rescinding offers"

I appreciate the major structural improvements you've made in your writing Elie, but let's not forget the finer points. I'm going to let you off with a warning for this comma splice.

Thanks for the shout-out The Devil's Advocate!

Elie, I'm back from my vacation, and I'm watching you like a hawk. If I catch you so much confusing 'it's' for 'its,' I'm coming for you.

You're toeing the line with those periods in your last sentence Elie. I'm watching...

This is in blatant violation of Revised Statutes of Grammar §13-102(a):

"In staffing cuts will hit a number of departments."

I let a lot of the little stuff slide Elie, but this doesn't even make sense. Your punishment, as usual, is to go eat five Ho-Hos.

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Holding: In regard to the question before the GP, the GP holds that the use of the word 'attritee' is proper and just.

The word 'attrit' is a verb. The recipients of a verb may be suffixed with a 'ee.' The actor of the verb retains the 'r' suffix (see the following examples):

- Employ/Employer/Employee
- Lease/Leasor/Lessee
- Grant/Grantor/Grantee

Therefore, the verb 'attrit' can be modified in the following ways:

- Attrit/Attritor/Attritee

The attritor would be the actor that carries out the attrition.

"And questions about whether the Roberts Court can still be called 'pro-business.'"

What is this drivel, Elie? I believe you meant to write the following:

And there are still questions about whether the Roberts Court can still be called "pro-business?"

Do you talk like this? Do you just emit a stream of verbal diarrhea for your interlocutor to sift through?

"It's time to get exciting about the law school rankings."

What the hell is wrong with you? I'm sorry, let me speak your language so that you'll understand: what the hell is wronging with you? Didn't you learn verb tenses in 5th grade?

58 = UChicago 1L

Nice work Elie. I know people, including me, sometimes groan at your attempts to be insightful at the end of your posts, but this time I think you hit the nail on the head. Partners now have the leverage necessary to decrease associate salaries, and in a world that worships PPP, expect one V20 firm to do this, and the rest will follow.

Would a 10% decrease in salary have saved 10% of a firm's workforce? If so, then I would have gladly taken the hit for my colleagues. Maybe I wouldn't have had that terrible survivor's guilt as I watched some good friends breaking down as they were escorted out of the building. $145,000 for baby associates is still a lot of damn money.

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The only issue is the comma splice between 'site' and 'but.' Plus, some fluency could be added with an 'also' after 'will.' Other than that, the sentence is fine. Have you ever heard of appositives?

That's right; nothing to see here, just keep moving along...

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Appositive: (of an adjective or adjectival phrase) directly following the noun it modifies.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/appositive?qsrc=2888

'I' is a noun, and I do believe that the phrase "[...]and I imagine many of the people on this site[...]" modifies it to include other readers. Another example would be as follows:

My father, and all of his rich friends, will be coming to the barbecue later this afternoon.

The relationship between such phrases is known as apposition.

Apposition: [Grammar.] a syntactic relation between expressions, usually consecutive, that have the same function and the same relation to other elements in the sentence, the second expression identifying or supplementing the first. In Washington, our first president, the phrase our first president is in apposition with Washington.

I appreciate the help ma'am, but I've got it.