I admit, I can’t stand New Year’s Eve - a full night of mandatory overhyped feting in which everyone dresses uncomfortably, hemorrhages cash and marinates their craniums in alcohol all to attain some socially-required level of enjoyment. But I do respect the tradition of reflecting on the previous year’s events, encouraging contemplation is never a […]

To the thirtysomething blonde woman I met standing on the corner this morning, your chapped face gradually turning purple in the polar wind after spending over 2 hours sojourning from Jersey to the Bronx to get to work caring for physically disabled children, I salute you.
To the twentysomething lawyer churlishly shoving her aside to hail […]

A generic bar on an arctic Saturday night, and what appears to be two brunettes sipping vodka tonics at a remote table is actually a scene of reconciliation. I’m sitting with R, a childhood friend blessed with the rare ability to recall my adolescent self, piles of stringy waist-length hair perpetually falling in my face […]

Ah the wonder of face time at law firms. It’s a universally accepted doctrine, worshipped by all associates with mute recognition. Denial of its existence is the single greatest fib told during that subsidized gong show that is 2L recruiting. Picture the well-scrubbed, eager young law student perched erect on his or her chair during […]

“She’s not coming back? Well there’s one huge fucking shock.”
M takes an emphatic swig from his $8 imported beer and shakes his head. We’re perched on splintery bar stools, shouting over the din of Thursday night happy hour. He called my desk an hour earlier to inform me the legal universe had miraculously aligned such […]

Since Sunday’s article, the amount of reader emails has unsurprisingly increased about tenfold. I’m happy to admit, I love hearing from readers - as someone who regularly spews the contents of her life onto the internet, I find nothing more validating than receiving comments, opinions, diatribes, complaints and personal stories of others in response. The […]

Halloween in Manhattan is an unrivalled social equalizer. What other day of the year can a pedestrian behold a walking cardboard Ipod halt on the corner of Bleecker and Lafayette to converse with a roving pack of samurai in giant purple afros. The ingrained collective boundaries we erect each morning before leaving our apartments instantly […]

It’s somewhere near miraculous that I’ve held on to my job this long. When readers first poured in to this site, I never thought I would still be maintaining the blog six months later. It was a fact then, and is now, that any day at work could hold some climactic scene involving a grim […]

For the past few years I’ve made a habit of stopping in my tracks every few months, glancing around the general topography of my life and taking stock. This week is the 6-month mark for the blog, as well as an anniversary of my start date at this firm. Last night it hit me that, […]

In a profession filled to overflowing with pretension, posturing, insincerity and slobberous ass-kissing, it’s always startling to hear raw honesty come from someone’s mouth, even the unlikeliest of sources. This afternoon, as I sat at my desk returning emails, entering billables and wading through the paper mounds canopying my desk, all while inhaling a chicken […]