Comments on: Anonymous Law Firm

Anonymous Law Firm

grumblebee — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 07:02:32 -0800

The New York office was opened by the founders of the Firm in 1908, the same year women competed in the modern Olympics for the first time. While the Firm moved its headquarters to Los Angeles in 1972, the New York office remains a critical branch of the Firm today, paying tribute to the firm's deeply rooted traditions by undervaluing support staff, requiring formal business attire, and excluding Jews.

By: aladfar

aladfar — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 07:08:34 -0800

So it's like The Onion, only for lawyers?

By: loquacious

loquacious — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 07:16:15 -0800

What the shit? That place confuses me. There can be only one response. DESTROY. My monkey hindbrain demands it.

By: ?!

?! — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 07:17:25 -0800

Clever ad for the book.

By: Jody Tresidder

Jody Tresidder — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 07:23:42 -0800

"Clever ad for the book." posted by ?! So - are you just incredibly clever - or was that luck? (Brilliant catch!)

By: sindark

sindark — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 07:33:24 -0800

I am guessing these people are affiliated with the advertisers over at HuhCorp. "We have really smart people who are always thinking up totally cool shit. We have a meeting room with a big, round, expensive table. When you hire us for marketing and consulting projects, we spend lots of time sitting around the table having meetings."

By: quonsar

quonsar — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 07:34:13 -0800

So - are you just incredibly clever - or was that luck? (Brilliant catch!) so - are you just incredibly distracted - or are you blind? (see the rightmost navbar link on the site) :-)

By: tomharpel

tomharpel — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 07:38:49 -0800

http://anonymouslawyer.blogspot.com/. Unrelated and probably better.

By: tomharpel

tomharpel — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 07:41:18 -0800

...er, not unrelated at all. Looks like the long-running Anonymous Lawyer weblog has spawned a book and a viral marketing campaign.

By: PeterMcDermott

PeterMcDermott — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 07:45:32 -0800

Unrelated and probably better. More online content, that's for sure -- and it depends what you mean by 'better', but it's kind of rare that I come across a blog that's more satisfying than a book. Blogs tend to be more open-ended, more provisional and have less effort put into them. Whereas the gatekeeper role that publishers play tends to filter out a lot of the crap that might end up in a blog. I know it's not very fashionable, but what can I say? Give me a real book, anyday.

By: spacewrench

spacewrench — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 07:46:59 -0800

There's a small firm in Colorado that has (had?) somewhat the same aesthetic, except I think it was for real. In fact, I found out about it from a Metafilter thread. Googling turns up some crumbs for Powers Phillips, but the main web site is down and most of the caches don't respond. (Maybe it's my connection?) An excerpt:

Powers Phillips, P.C., is a small law firm located in downtown Denver, Colorado within convenient walking distance of over fifty bars and a couple of doughnut shops. Powers Phillips also maintains a small satellite office-in-exile on the cow-covered hillsides near Carbondale, Colorado, where it puts out to pasture some of its aging attorneys. The firm is composed of lawyers from the two major strains of the legal profession, those who litigate and those who wouldn't be caught dead in a courtroom.

By: airguitar

airguitar — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 07:49:18 -0800

The Future is Dallas.

By: rdone

rdone — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 07:52:00 -0800

Each summer, we are proud to select a Pro Bono Lawyer of the Year. The selected attorney is celebrated at a banquet in his or her honor. The prize is two weeks of severance pay. Savage but brilliant.

By: Jody Tresidder

Jody Tresidder — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 08:12:23 -0800

"so - are you just incredibly distracted - or are you blind? (see the rightmost navbar link on the site)":-) posted by quonsar Well, at least I wasn't the only distracted, blind person here. But, yeah - embarrassing.

By: evilgenius

evilgenius — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 08:23:10 -0800

someone forgot the adfilter tag

By: Rhomboid

Rhomboid — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 09:46:21 -0800

So this book, it vibrates?

By: footnote

footnote — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 10:44:07 -0800

Anonymous Lawyer was the blog started by Harvard Law School student Jeremy Blachman (who simultaneously had his own non-pseudonymous blog) while he was still a student. Once he was unmasked (with some fanfare) as author of Anonymous Lawyer, he decided to ditch the law, take the book deal and run. (I love the the picture of corporate yoga on the book site.)

By: Dr. Zira

Dr. Zira — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 12:06:27 -0800

Blachman's current blog is here.

By: amber_dale

amber_dale — Sat, 03 Jun 2006 12:36:38 -0800

Here is a review of the Anonymous Lawyer book by someone who actually knows something about law firms. He's not impressed.

By: caddis

caddis — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 09:05:47 -0800

Associates who divorce their spouses see an immediate boost in productivity, salary, mental health, and the chances of being assigned to do the kinds of intellectually stimulating legal work that brought them to the firm in the first place. These benefits are tripled in cases where the associate chooses to forego visitation with his or her children.