I just arrived in Majorca, Spain, dreams of paella, sangria and long overdue sex on my mind. I’d been working round the clock on some stupid merger for three months. I’d barely seen my fiancée for weeks—and she was seconds away from returning the expensive ring I’d just bought for her. So I planned a [...]
Submitted by “anon_in_LA”: A little context: I work in a huge firm in downtown LA but am from the Northeast. We have blizzards, maybe the occasional hurricane, but that’s about it. No brush fires. No mudslides. No earthquakes. From 8.30 a.m. on this morning, I was the designated first-year note-taking bitch on a horrible, long-ass [...]
Associate Abuse is a serious and sometimes fatal problem. The scars of humiliation are deep and long-lasting—affecting not just the abused attorneys, but the community in which they live. There are countless innocent associates who have been laid off at Christmas, kicked in the gut, ditched in random cities. All by sexless, sadistic partners and bitter [...]
