Rumor has it that Skadden Arps has decided to screw over victims of the recent Times Square bomb scare incident. As you've probably heard, a building doorman reported a suspicious looking van without license plates to the NYPD, who quickly called in the bomb detail and evacuated all high-rise buildings in the area including Skadden Arps headquarters at 4 Times Square the day before New Year's Eve.
Skadden has apparently informed the coders that they will not be paid for the time they were out of the building due to the evacuation. This doesn't surprise us here at T the T, since Skadden is a notoriously cheap crew of shysters. They suffer from a major prestige defecit due to their "McBiglaw" reputation, and recently axed scores of long-time staff attorneys and paras without a moment's notice or a dime of severance. In these turbulent times, it's comforting to know that scumbags like Skadden haven't changed their tune.
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That is such bullshit. Unless the temps were free to go/do their own thing, they were "waiting to work", which is compensable time under the NYS wage hour laws. Someone should report them to the NYS DOL, the agency as a joint employer can be held liable as well.
5:39, and what will the NY DOL do about it? Nothing, because the gov't will never tangle with Skadden or any other BigLaw firm. Remember: BigLaw runs the gov't.
Where are my congratulatory postings for winning the 2009 Beastly Behavior Award?
I'm humbled and honored to receive such a prestigious award, prestigious because it comes from the "grass roots" level of our profession. Or, rather, the manure/fertilizer level....
The 2009 Beastly Behavior Award shows I'm in touch and resonating with the peasantry, a "populist," if you will.
Deanman Massa-sar: Dean of New York Law School, Chairman of Access Group, and 2009 Beastly Behavior Award laureate - all at the same time! I'm amazing!
Ran into a fellow coder I did a job with once awhile back. They were a good coder. They are unemployed as well so yeah we were both outside during the day. Funny don't refer to them as a co-worker but, rather as someone that I did a job with, like criminals talking about yeah I did a job with so and so and yeah there a good thief or convicts saying yeah I did time with them. This whole thing is ridiculous.
Skadden needs to admit they are a toilet firm and treat their temps nicely. Skaddenites would all be coding document too if it weren't for Joe Flom.
Oh come on. Now they should be paid for not working? WTF
I got a Legal Rebels skateboard.
"Oh come on. Now they should be paid for not working? WTF"
^ You are retarded. They should be paid for showing up, just like everyone else at the firm.
6:07 PM
Come on, Skadden is not that powerful. Actually they have no power. Look how many cases their litigation department (not good) loses.
The premise of the post is correct that Skaden is not a quality firm it's just large.
Same as Finley Kumble, which went bankrupt.
Tally me banana
Just got the glossy alumni mag from my festering TTT. They cannot wait to show in glowing detail all of their new shiny "diverse" professors and the young students engaged in "social justice" campaigns. The school has shifted to left of Karl Marx!
In the back of this liberal rag is pie chart showing how the school funds all of their do-gooderism...are you ready?
Tuition is 96% of the funding source! So this means that student loans from the bottom three quarters of the class are literally funding all of this crap.
Rather than focusing on real world job hunting, they are leading these lemmings astray with pie in the sky fantasies.
Now, I'm not against law school students giving back and enagaging in clinics. But it would certainly be nice to see a little balance and show how they are doing real work to find students decent jobs.
Why on earth would I ever give a penny to these people? NOPE - Not one Penny Ever!
As the pie chart indicates, many others agree with me as only .7% of funding comes from annual fund gifts and current-use gifts.
More useless self perpetuating liberalism run amok.
@9:58 - I think you confuse liberalism with the mushy-headed nonsense spewed by academics.
I'm a liberal, hell bordering on socialist, and I can't think of a single redeeming virtue of your festering TTT ill preparing its students for the real world. Or, keeping their doors open.
Don't put this bullshit at the doorstep of liberalism.
9:58 PM
Under Obama the biggest affirmative action beneficiary ever, but always talking arrogantly and selfcenteredly and with his chin in the air (sound familiar?), this diversity crap is going to the moon!
But what are you complaining about your school for? 99% of your alumni I bet voted for Obama. They're so diverse! They're so groovy!
We are paying for this Obamaism much more than in law school tuitions, which, let's face it, people don't have to pay for.
99% of temps voted for Obama.
"I believe in diversity."
"I had many African American professors and have Nigerian colleagues at the office."
10:33 PM
Are you stupid, too?
Do youy think conservatives have been pushing this diversity and other B.S.?
Sorry it's the liberals and socialists even worse.
@10:43
Not really sure what the hell you're talking about, but exhibit No. 1 as to why conservatives (if you are one(?!?)) are retards.
Obama is no liberal.
Just like GWB was not a "true conservative."
What do you thik liberalism is?
It's spending OPM (other people's money) on supposed do gooding programs, welfare, and diversity training.
Those "mushy headed academics" are not giving the money to free enterprise institutes or to Liberty University.
My lovely little..... uh huh uh huh uh huh.
"Obama is no liberal. "
Another idiot mouthing off.
Obama as a senator had the highest liberal ratings in the Senate.
"I am a temp attorney. A doctorate degree holder."
Diversity is the problem? Really?
There's mushy-headed nonsense that matters little (e.g. diversity and kum bay yah) and there's straight up malignant behavior that get's enabled by the ABA (e.g. outsourcing and LLM abuse).
What matters little is pushed by the mushy-headed of the liberals. What matters a lot is pushed by the conservatives.
Keep that straight. It will help.
"It's spending OPM (other people's money) on supposed do gooding programs, welfare, and diversity training."
Yup, that's what's busting the budget. You're a retard.
10:51 PM
ha ha ha
"I am not a liberal."
Nice try Michelle Obama!
"10:51 PM
ha ha ha
'I am not a liberal.'
Nice try Michelle Obama!"
Huh? The longer I spend here, the more I think conservatives really are morons.
Let me start by saying I work for a legal staffing agency. Whatever agency had these contractors out has to pay them. Skadden can tell the agency they are not going to pay them for that time but that doesn't change the agencies obligation to pay the temps.
What's more racist than using "offshore" LPOs to avoid labor, environemental and anti-discrimination laws?
Of course there are no African Americans on the projects being illegally performed in India.
What a joke! Any companies using TARP funds to outsource should be sued. Class action anyone?
If you ask for pay for the bomb scare time you will be blacklisted.
I'd bet that Skadden still billed the client for the time the temps spent outside.
All the politics and race baiting aside, and getting back to the purpose of t the t blog, has anyone working at 65 Broadway seen evidence that its about over? I work at 2 Logan in Philly and am starting to see major hints of an imminent end here. I spoke to an fti friend who said that merck told Dechert that either the nyc or philly site had to close. He said that they were starting to move equipment from 65 Broadway. However, between the unusually grim behavior of the philly staff attorneys and the fact that the 2 Logan lease expires at the end of this month, I'm starting to think that my fti friend is wrong and that the philly site is closing within the next week or two. Does anyone working at 65 Broadway have any insight?
Hey L4L, so you're going to censor the blog now? You really are a loser. Why don't you go back to running your own shitty blog?
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