What do you do?

Got on two big cases we have with Baker Botts and Haynes and Boone as o/c, I have friends from law school on the case on the other side, saw their names on email lists. Hah. Meet and confer is really gonna be like Suits for once where we all know each other and trade witty law school stories prior to hard-nosed negotiating.

Is it like that scene from American Psycho trying to one-up eachother's business card?

Deathwing said:

Is it like that scene from American Psycho trying to one-up eachother's business card?

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Ok so story time. I had a meeting with a group of Sullcrom lawyers from Bank of America. It's was a hush-hush settlement meeting for a case that officially, BofA would 100% deny liability for, so they wouldn't even meet with us at BofA facilities OR sullcrom facilities. We met at another biglaw firm's conference room in Chicago. None of us were from Chicago. Thus the "secrecy".

So they put us in one conference room while they "got set up." Then they came to get us, and it was like the most stilted, formal introductions I've ever seen. Two deputy GC's from BofA were there and about 10 sullcrom lawyers. They were arranged around the room in a conga line. We went around the room shaking hands and introducing ourselves to each of them (there were only 2 of us!) and each of them gave us a business card, and we gave ours to them. About 2 minutes into the meeting, the GC's from BofA asked for their cards back because they didn't want us to have proof of this meeting. LOL

99% of the time my job is boring research and writing motions and conversations with o/c that are basically like "we think you should do X, will you do X?" "no" "ok" /files motion

But sometimes it can be pretty entertaining. 2 day trip to Chicago for a 1 hour meeting. Not bad.

Rikkon said:

Ha

I'd be curious as to which internal counsel you met from baml. Not that you can tell me but it would be funny to me though from your description of taking their cards back it sounds like they are morons from retail so I probably don't know them.

I worked there for years. I'm in Dallas all week and I can see the green pickle from my office window.

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I don't even remember their names so it'd be hard for to tell you anyways. Not from retail, and they were the same guys that worked on the 8.5B BONY deal that Kathy Patrick and Blackrock fucked up.

Rikkon said:

I could probably make a pretty good guess

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Ok well now you know I worked for one of the 27 law firms affiliated with that deal.

Big Phoenix said:

Zero reason why Mist cant move onto a better job after being at that one for a year+ and being so skilled.

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maybe she doesn't fit in with people and that is sort of a turn off for employers.

source: me.

For fuck sakes get an abusive boyfriend and your life is set.

How old is your boss? I had to google that saying.