Yes, the increases were reported elsewhere, but was the news announced minutes after the first memo was released? Were the actual memos leaked there? Was there discussion about total compensation differing for firms on diffent fiscal calendars? Was there up to the minute tracking of which firms matched and which did not? Do these sites maintain easily accessible salary charts for biglaw firms in major markets? Not to my knowledge. These things are rather gauche, and best discussed behind the comfort of a pseudonymn.

OMG, that, like, totally makes it okay for them to do what they did! Everyone who argued against the forum in general and you in particular is so dumb, like, for reals.

Bad guys (and/or girls) will find their own level, a sort of Mos Eisley hive of scum and villainy where anonymity is key to the quasi-legal or outright illegal things they do. That doesn’t mean, however, that anyone has to tolerate the existance of a place where they do shit like that.

Scum always comes back when you sweep it off the bottom of your shoe. But it’s still worth the time and effort to clean it off.

Are you fucking kidding me?

Have you not heard of AmLaw? NYLJ? National Law Journal?

Salaries are BIG news in the legal community.

Yes, the increases were reported elsewhere, but was the news announced minutes after the first memo was released? Were the actual memos leaked there? Was there discussion about total compensation differing for firms on diffent fiscal calendars? Was there up to the minute tracking of which firms matched and which did not? Do these sites maintain easily accessible salary charts for biglaw firms in major markets? Not to my knowledge. These things are rather gauche, and best discussed behind the comfort of a pseudonymn.
As for the anonymity of the forum that allows for gossip not precluding moderation of offensive posts, it’s a site full of douchebag law students and lawyers. Nothing less than a bright line rule regarding limits on posting will be tolerated, and thus far an attempt to create one in regards to posting personal information about non-lawyers has been unsuccessful.

I’m so mad I can’t edit properly.

Jarret Cohen is stated as an insurance agent. Which company? They won’t be as tolerant as Penn law to discriminatory behavior. Should I start at the large ones and work my way down to smaller companies?

It is economic warfare for these guys because there are entitlement is not as strong as before.

Besides, which part of “this conversation is over” do you not understand?

Not that there wasn’t a sexist response to women on campus BEFORE the Internet—the frat rats used to put out a “Pig Book” which is roughly the same thing but without the international exposure. Natch the administration did nothing and I guess some things never change.

How about giving these twerps a taste of their own medicine? We could have an online male PIG BOOK which would deal not with the physical (although that too is an option) but the biggest male pigs vis a vis women students. Then maybe we could email all the judges with the 411 which will make their future law careers REALLY interesting, no?

p.s. there are a LOT of women judges now.

Well. Okay.

Shorter me: Dude, if you can’t take the heat, stay out of the kitchen.

“But not until I post a whole bunch more comments whining about how you are all picking on me.”