tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9203481901177661359.post8889425803582499608..comments2023-08-01T05:00:57.857-05:00Comments on Minnesota Lawyer Blog: The kiss of death?Mark Cohen, editorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10119858489884538496noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9203481901177661359.post-57478721895279685892008-07-28T07:44:00.000-05:002008-07-28T07:44:00.000-05:00I concur with anon@10:56 for the most part, with t...I concur with anon@10:56 for the most part, with the following caveat:<BR/><BR/>-The above the law story (through follow ups) indicates that there may have been other behavioral issues with these women (such as drinking at firm lunches, etc), and that the evening in question was the proverbial straw that broke the camel's back. I certainly don't know if that's true, but if it is, it gives L&V more justification in my mind. <BR/><BR/>Also, to anon@6:53: Are you kidding me? Get off your high horse and click "back" on your browser to read something else if a story doesn't interest you. Just because an organization reports on a topic that is itself rather tasteless does not make the organization tasteless (If so, e.g., every news organization would have been deemed in poor taste and lacking quality by your standards when they reported about semen-stained dresses and cigars in inappropriate places during the Clinton administration).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9203481901177661359.post-13758556053131808652008-07-25T22:56:00.000-05:002008-07-25T22:56:00.000-05:00wow. are you seriously debating the journalistic ...wow. are you seriously debating the journalistic importance of such a story rather than focussing on the really disturbing facts that:<BR/><BR/>1. the "kiss" occured AFTER a firm sponsored event. seriously, if every attorney were fired any time they did anything less than completely professional in public after hours, i'm pretty sure there'd be no attorneys left in mn. <BR/><BR/>which brings me to:<BR/><BR/>2. do you really think they would have been FIRED had they been a male/female pair? i'd be a first year associate's salary the answer is "no." how can you not be appalled by this? <BR/><BR/>sure, maybe the girls didn't think this out so well, but isn't the firm really the culpable party here? if it was anything like my summer expeience, it's pretty ridiculous to basically peer pressure a bunch of 20-something kids who have been studying their butts off for a year to do as many rounds of tequilla shots as they can in an hour and then expect them to behave like angels. good lord, they didn't knock over a liquor store. they kissed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9203481901177661359.post-36903674447156741312008-07-25T13:18:00.000-05:002008-07-25T13:18:00.000-05:00Good point, 10:57 comment. It's a whole new world ...Good point, 10:57 comment. It's a whole new world with e-technology. (BTW, In my prior comment I obviously meant first or second year <I>summer</I> associates.) Mea culpa for any confusion on that.Mark Cohen, editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10119858489884538496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9203481901177661359.post-1243850529759281232008-07-24T10:57:00.000-05:002008-07-24T10:57:00.000-05:00This story just reminds us that the legal communit...This story just reminds us that the legal community is a small one. Reputation is an important part of being a good lawyer. We need to remember in the age of facebook/myspace/and thousands of blogs that what happens in front of only a handful of people can be brodcast to the world in minutes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9203481901177661359.post-63222294666320928232008-07-24T10:37:00.000-05:002008-07-24T10:37:00.000-05:00Check out this site on the incident and the www.Ab...Check out this site on the incident and the www.AbovetheLaw.com comments. Seems that the lesbos over at 2 Lesbos Goin At It know the source of the problem at Lindquist: <BR/><BR/>http://2lesbosgoinatit.wordpress.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9203481901177661359.post-38026326057943024852008-07-24T09:05:00.000-05:002008-07-24T09:05:00.000-05:00You make a fair point. Because this story does hav...You make a fair point. Because this story does have limited news value and I think the two women involved have been punished enough for an unfortunate incident, it is something we would probably not have made public here, even if the news had crossed our desk. However, at the point we posted this, the story had become public and generated literally hundreds of comments. <BR/><BR/>So the question at that point becomes is there any value for our blog readers in repeating this watercooler-story as an anecdote sans any identifying information about the associates involved. <BR/><BR/>I think there is some value for our younger readers who might be first or second year associates. With all the boat cruises, clam bakes and whatnots, it can be easy to forget at times that what you are essentially on is a summer-long job audition. You should behave as such at any firm function -- sanctioned or unsactioned. You can certainly argue whether termination was the appropriate sanction for what happened, but it doesn't appear that everything that happened would have happened if one kept in mind this was a job interview.Mark Cohen, editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10119858489884538496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9203481901177661359.post-86209411238843022872008-07-24T06:53:00.000-05:002008-07-24T06:53:00.000-05:00Entertaining? Perhaps. Journalistic importance? ...Entertaining? Perhaps. Journalistic importance? None. I am disappointed to see this blog report on this issue. I had held it a bit higher than some of the others as far as taste and quality of reporting goes. I am disappointed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com