For Mr. Flanagan....
when i was much younger, and worked downtown in a high rise, i was shocked to walk into the office of a senior partner in the law firm - standing with the ONLY female partner in the firm, and they were looking out the window at the sunset, with a notebook in front of them, jotting a note on the paper. i asked, 'what are you doing?' and they replied, "noting the time of the sunset. someone has to keep a watch on god!". true story.
he was also one of the ones who taught me that not all lawyers are asses..... i witnessed a young associate verbally abuse a secretary over something very stupid, and the same elder male partner (head of the firm's municipal bond department) approached the young male associate, backed him into the wall, but his hand on the youngster's tie - slid him UP the wall a bit, and said, "that is not how we treat people around here.", turned around and calmly walked back into his office and shut the door. another true story!
joe liked to avoid bond deals involving drexel burnham (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexel_Burnham_Lambert) as a player... because, he used to say, "something about that firm just is NOT right...."
he offered me a paralegal job in the bond group, and i turned him down. he was SHOCKED. my reasoning was that i saw more of a future in information technology work. i was up on his floor because i was developing a data base for his group to use, so they could easily find previous bond deals done within the firms 4 offices with similar characteristics - that way, rather than reinventing the wheel, they could pull the deal's supporting documents as a starting point for the new deal and save a whole bunch of time and effort. see, i was data mining before the term was invented!!
the direction that firm took after this generation passed is very sad.....
when i was much younger, and worked downtown in a high rise, i was shocked to walk into the office of a senior partner in the law firm - standing with the ONLY female partner in the firm, and they were looking out the window at the sunset, with a notebook in front of them, jotting a note on the paper. i asked, 'what are you doing?' and they replied, "noting the time of the sunset. someone has to keep a watch on god!". true story.
he was also one of the ones who taught me that not all lawyers are asses..... i witnessed a young associate verbally abuse a secretary over something very stupid, and the same elder male partner (head of the firm's municipal bond department) approached the young male associate, backed him into the wall, but his hand on the youngster's tie - slid him UP the wall a bit, and said, "that is not how we treat people around here.", turned around and calmly walked back into his office and shut the door. another true story!
joe liked to avoid bond deals involving drexel burnham (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drexel_Burnham_Lambert) as a player... because, he used to say, "something about that firm just is NOT right...."
he offered me a paralegal job in the bond group, and i turned him down. he was SHOCKED. my reasoning was that i saw more of a future in information technology work. i was up on his floor because i was developing a data base for his group to use, so they could easily find previous bond deals done within the firms 4 offices with similar characteristics - that way, rather than reinventing the wheel, they could pull the deal's supporting documents as a starting point for the new deal and save a whole bunch of time and effort. see, i was data mining before the term was invented!!
the direction that firm took after this generation passed is very sad.....
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