This comment is addressed to post no. 27.

Not to worry, my HD2 will be arriving this Friday. Incidentally, the sales representative at the Verizon store that sold me the Imagio is a deferred associate. We live in a great country where folks can collect a generous severance from a law firm and still earn coin on the side.

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This comment is addressed to post no. 36.

I just left Rick's Cabaret. I will be returning this evening. The highlight of my lunch hour was receiving a slow and seductive dance by Irina while an '80s song (with the chorus of "Toy Soldiers") was playing in the background. I definitely climbed the summit.

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This story and its author: Class: Zero, Experience Points: Zero, Level: Zero, Unintelligible and possessing the charisma of a deceased sloth.

Please don't quit your day job.

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Eicher is an amateur. If I want to feel "Allgood," I just go over to Rick's Cabaret for an hour. Why would this oaf expose his firm by carrying a cucumber in his pants? What kind of Donald Duck outfit is Williams Mullen?

After my wife passed away in 2002, I went through a grieving period that involved dating women from all types of ethnic origins. Bereavement can be expressed in many forms. I recall in December of 2002, I met Mimi, a 32 year old woman from Vietnam. She was a widow so we bonded naturally. Mimi had a body that conjured images of a young Mae West. During our intimate encounters, Mimi would squeal "too beacoup." She was a very passionate lady. I almost wish I had gone to 'Nam instead of going to law school. Then again, I didn't get my cucumber blown up in some opium field. Moral of the story: the grass will always be greener on the other side.

I have one Chagall painting that hangs in my Trophy room at my Naples estate that is worth more than all of Hellers' combined "art." If Heller could be conned into buying worthless art, it is no wonder why they couldn't keep afloat.

This comment is addressed to post no. 143.

You cannot count the 13" penis that is currently lodged in your rectum towards your overall penile size. That is all.

I recall going to a junior partner's home in Long Island many years ago. He showed me an Andy Warhol painting that he proudly proclaimed having paid $750,000.00 for. In my mind I thought what kind of idiot would pay $750,000.00 for "work" done by an artist who is best known for painting tomato soup cans? Then Heller's art offerings come to mind.

To answer post no. 5. This profession breeds depression. I know many colleagues that have mixed anti-depressants with the use of drugs such as Cialis, Viagra and Levitra. Some of these folks began exhibiting early signs of dementia. In 1999, a partner walked out of a meeting to go to the mens' room. He came back to the meeting with feces on his necktie. We had to commit him at the Manhattan Psychiatric Center where doctors advised us that he was showing signs of dementia that could be traced to the combined use of anti-depressants and impotency medication. Again, I warn folks that this profession is not for everyone. On the other hand, I loved every day of practicing law and am thankful that I do not require medication prior to intimacy.

This comment is addressed to post no. 15.

I am not sure what the standard is now, I think Sptizer changed it, however, back in those days you could commit someone if you could show that the person was a danger to himself or others. Smearing feces on yourself and potentially on others was enough to meet that criteria.

This is a non-story. However, I ran across this picture of the wise latina which I think should become the new stock photo of Sotomayor.

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?p=2409939#post2409939

Let this article be a reminder that staff attorneys, associates, counsel and non-equity partners are expendable and interchangeable cogs. Does the captain of a company off himself on the battlefield to save a private? Of course not. If you want to blame someone, point your finger at the person in charge of the economy and job creation. Perhaps that person is too busy bankrupting our country with a ridiculous healthcare plan.

I echo post no. 19's sentiment.

Kids, this is free money. There are people who work 9-5 everyday and won't even earn $12K a year. These stipends are generous. Stop complaining about your bills. We all have bills and if you can't pay yours, you obviously are not good with numbers or money (you are in good company with Commissar Obama). I resent kids that complain about the high price they paid for their schooling. No one forced you to leverage yourself on a pipe dream. Or am I also supposed to feel sorry for you that a $50K a year stipend is not enough to also support your drug addiction? You gambled and lost. Accept it and quit complaining. At least with $50K, you can live like royalty in a third world country. Try Thailand.

Do I have to spell it out to you spoiled brats? Must I write an urban survival guide or primer so that you leeches can "survive" on a gift of $40K or $50K a year? If you live in Chicago, Philadelphia, Atlanta, NYC, Baltimore...look around you. Under the Obama economy there is a massive foreclosure wave (record high actually). There are many abandoned properties that have been boarded and foreclosed upon. Remember Tompkins Square Park or the Avenue D squatters showdown with the NYPD during the Guliani days (e.g., water tanks)? Put two and two together you insufferable peons.

The numbers don't lie. Let us talk numbers. A know nothing associate with no skills is paid $160K per year. Assuming he/she bills 2,000 hours at $350.00 per hr., your gross revenue per associate is $700,000.00. Deduct the $160K of salary plus another $160K in secretary salary, pro-rata office space rental, health benefits, 401K, misc. perks, and the net profit per associate is $380,000.00.
Now we all know clients resent paying know nothing associates more than $250/hr. Now, if you hire a foreign outsourced attorney, bill them at $250 per hour and get 2,000 billables, that is a net revenue of $500,000.00. You pay that foreign based attorney the equivalent of $50,000 USD and your net profit per attorney is $450,000.00 or $70,000 more than paying a know nothing associate. There are no other overhead costs with hiring a foreign based attorney (i.e., office rent, secretary, health benefits, profit sharing) and best of all, the firm would be insulated from defending baseless wrongful termination and sexual harrassment lawsuits. The numbers don't lie. I think it is clear how we need to change our business model.

This comment is addressed to post no. 34.

Re-read my post. There is a $100.00 per hour discount factored into the foreign based attorney's billing rate.

I rarely express sympathy for anyone, especially in this business. However, after reading this nonsensical drivel, I feel sorry for the folks that have worked with the author in the past. Working with her must have been murder.

By the way, this story has so many inconsistencies about the legal profession that it makes the writers of LA Law seem like authorities on the law.

To the Editor in Chief of this site: This series is killing your readership. Personally, these entries are killing me and if they continue I shall be nothing but a ghost on this site.

This is a personal message to the editors of this site. I was very disappointed with today's articles. You put the wedding column on hiatus yet continued with that horrid "My Job is Murder" storyline that is so repulsive that after reading it I am inclined to feel and do evil things to innocent people. I am afraid if that column column continues, I will be forced to ban myself from this site as I do not wish to have my learned posts associated with such weak literary offerings. That is all.

I am in an unusual good mood. Perhaps it's as a result of an intoxicating evening at Rick's Cabaret. I only have less than two months before I move on to another journey and retire from this profession for good. I feel betrayed by the editors of this site. Why must you insist on posting this "My Job is Murder" series? It is a banal piece that is poorly written and beneath the intelligence of the average reader of this site. Why must the editors of this site insist on force feeding this dung down our throats? I am a tolerant man and over the years I have given multiple passes on indiscretions. Continuing to publish this story leaves me no choice but to believe that the editors of this site know more about the legal profession than I do. Fine. Continue publishing this story. Until you remove this distasteful series from this site, I will remain in exile from above the law. Perhaps that is the pun of this poorly written and executed piece--the murder of Partner Emeritus. Mr. Mystal, when you and the powers that be come to your senses, you know how to reach me.

I am in an unusual good mood. Perhaps it's as a result of an intoxicating evening at Rick's Cabaret. I only have less than two months before I move on to another journey and retire from this profession for good. I feel betrayed by the editors of this site. Why must you insist on posting this "My Job is Murder" series? It is a banal piece that is poorly written and beneath the intelligence of the average reader of this site. Why must the editors of this site insist on force feeding this dung down our throats? I am a tolerant man and over the years I have given multiple passes on indiscretions. Continuing to publish this story leaves me no choice but to believe that the editors of this site know more about the legal profession than I do. Fine. Continue publishing this story. Until you remove this distasteful series from this site, I will remain in exile from above the law. Perhaps that is the pun of this poorly written and executed piece--the murder of Partner Emeritus. Mr. Mystal, when you and the powers that be come to your senses, you know how to reach me.