Tuesday, January 23, 2007
To Be[nd over] or Not to Be[nd over]
The big news in the legal community right now is the discrimination lawsuit that a gay Associate filed against white shoe law firm Sullivan & Cromwell in the New York Supreme Court last week.
In the filed Complaint, Aaron Charney alleges that amongst other incidents, a Partner threw a document at his feet and told him to "bend over and pick it up - I'm sure you like that." He also alleges that the next day, the same Partner handed him a document and said "I just took a sh*t while reading this, and some might still be on there for you." The allegations are all the more surprising because S&C has openly gay Partners such as John O'Brien.
An ex-colleague of mine said she didn't think there was anything to complain about because Charney was being given work to do, which showed the Partner trusted him and he wouldn't lose his job from being redundant :) Yeah right, I'd like to see how she reacts if I ever threw anything at her feet and asked her to bend over and pick it up. I'm pretty sure that within a few seconds I would be looking for my phone ... deep up my *ss ... trying to get it out before she makes a call on vibration mode.
Anyway, as serious and surprising as the allegations in Charney's Complaint are, at the end of the day, what interested me the most was the exhibit at the end of the Complaint containing a copy of S&C's Partnership Agreement. So that's how they split profits, retire Partners and make partnership decisions! I'm such a cynic.
The big news in the legal community right now is the discrimination lawsuit that a gay Associate filed against white shoe law firm Sullivan & Cromwell in the New York Supreme Court last week.
In the filed Complaint, Aaron Charney alleges that amongst other incidents, a Partner threw a document at his feet and told him to "bend over and pick it up - I'm sure you like that." He also alleges that the next day, the same Partner handed him a document and said "I just took a sh*t while reading this, and some might still be on there for you." The allegations are all the more surprising because S&C has openly gay Partners such as John O'Brien.
An ex-colleague of mine said she didn't think there was anything to complain about because Charney was being given work to do, which showed the Partner trusted him and he wouldn't lose his job from being redundant :) Yeah right, I'd like to see how she reacts if I ever threw anything at her feet and asked her to bend over and pick it up. I'm pretty sure that within a few seconds I would be looking for my phone ... deep up my *ss ... trying to get it out before she makes a call on vibration mode.
Anyway, as serious and surprising as the allegations in Charney's Complaint are, at the end of the day, what interested me the most was the exhibit at the end of the Complaint containing a copy of S&C's Partnership Agreement. So that's how they split profits, retire Partners and make partnership decisions! I'm such a cynic.
# posted by Fore! @ 6:49 PM 
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