I want to apologize to an old colleague of mine. He’d just gotten married and took a 10 day honeymoon (wow!). A month later he did a weekend ski trip (oof!) and couldn’t get WiFi for a closing that got moved up 4 weeks. I filled in for him. I remember the partner saying he was a total ‘liability’ & that he sucked. I laughed and said “yeah - doesn’t want it.” I believed it too. I spent the whole weekend playing ‘hero’ for Deal Team Six. You can ALWAYS count on me. Meanwhile my relationship was on borrowed time and hair thinning rapidly. I’m V10 baby! He got ‘stealth’ dismissed that Monday. They let him keep his website photo for 2 months while he found something new. He did. Fast forward a few years - I see it way different. He was bright, and hard working, and put his ppl first. He liked his life. He had balls. But I was racin’! - king of the rats. And my apartment in midtown actually had vermin. A totally delusional period of my life. One of those lessons you learn in hindsight. Hope you’re doing well brother.

Yeah, maybe. They’ve been SUPER focused on lawyer redlines for a few years now. I encourage the bots to pivot like a fourth year ran out of Skadden for using the wrong NDA form. Medical and math should be on a tee. Swing, bot. Let it rip

I haven’t commented on this bc it’s low IQ legal. She doesn’t have the requisite merit for that position (it’s a speaking gig; you need to be hyper verbal). She will find a home chit chatting politics like the rest of the pretty pundits & wigged men fit for clicks. She’ll be fine - arguably better off. Wish her well. Separately, on the vernacular warfare that’s taken place on JD v lawyer v attorney: funny to see it unfold. I body slammed the bar on take one, but many smart n capable ppl have failed. Everyone is too busy to care. All she had to do was say she’s unlicensed to practice and we’d have respected her spine. No one wants a press secretary who engages actively in law. You need a speaker, a persona, a prop. Not a lawyer or an attorney. The Zach Attack was fun while it lasted

This means Ropes is pledging more capital to AI than Kirkland did in pursuing its own. They’ll forego $100M in collections a year. (Math is 1000 associates at 1000 an hour, times 100.) But it’s more than that rly, since a good chunk of the associates are 1500 p/h. Kirkland was $500M over 5 years. I don’t think many firms follow this. I implemented with +/- 10 hours of play 👾