The View from Here
I started here as an 22 year old, fresh-faced college grad about to embark on law school, who thought it was time to drop my tennis racquet (my previous summer jobs involved teaching tennis and being a country club tennis pro) and enter the “real world” to work at a law firm to prepare for the rigors of a life in law. At least a million document reviews later (sadly not an exaggeration) I may not have had much of a summer lesson in the finer points of the law, but I did know that CB was a group of great people who treated even the lowest person on the totem pole (undoubtedly me) with respect and dignity.
We’ve changed offices, seen some old friends go and new friends come, had a party or two (and maybe the occasional drink), won many cases (and admittedly lost some cases), won a lot of softball games, had babies, got married, got divorced, and above all learned a lot. But, fifteen plus years later it is remarkable to note, especially in the intervening years of widespread nationwide law firm mergers, defections, closings and the like, that the core of the people at the Firm in 1992 are largely unchanged today. CB is still a place that trades on its people. Whether it is in the way it treats employees and their families, its fellow members of the bar, be it friend or foe, and of course its clients.
In this space, I will post my thoughts on things that touch CB or the profession in general, and provide links to interesting (mostly humorous!) stories about our profession. Hopefully, it will be an enjoyable read, not too serious, and something worth coming back for.
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