C'mon LB. His initial response was probably "Yes."
His answer could have been, "Copies."
I've been working with this guy for about a year now. I can guarantee that he considered both of those possibilities before deciding that 'A subset' would be slightly, but perceptibly, more irritating. I can see the feline little smirk on his face with perfect clarity.
Give him 10 copies of each anyway, when he says he asked for a subset tell him you gave him a complete subset.
LB, you got totally pwnz0red by the partner. You should tell him that.
Dear Partner,
You totally pwnz0red me. What subset would you like. Please list the documents you would like.
Thanks,
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Give him no documents, since he didn't specify that he wanted a proper subset.
I am simply not going to respond. He'll have copies of the documents I think are interesting -- if Subset Boy has a different idea, he had his chance to have input into the process.
No documents would be a proper subset. Which would be why it was funny.
7's right. He's testing you to make sure you know what's relevant/important for prep. (Though to the larger point, I never got why partners insisted on hiding the ball, especially from junior associates who need some clear guidance before they decide to go to another firm with a better pro bono policy. E.g.)
LOL, passive-aggressive workplace behavior! LB, I'm both surprised and thrilled! (I do the same kind of thing at work.)
10: That would be a reasonable guess, but no, he's just a sadist. I've already given him an outline (a month ago) with a number of the documents referenced, and suggested the documents referenced in the outline as a possible subset in my initial email.
And Moira, you're a lawyer? I've been reading your blog (which, you know, is way funny) for about a year and hadn't realized.
What about the "10 copies" thingy? That makes it seem like these documents are required for some formal bit of ceremony and it ought to be pretty clearly laid out which ones are required. I don't understand thing one about courtrooms.
He's obviously Ben w-lfs-n. Or me.
That makes it seem like these documents are required for some formal bit of ceremony and it ought to be pretty clearly laid out which ones are required.
It's a deposition, where you ask questions about documents, and if he wanted to ask questions about a document, he'd need to have copies to give everyone. If he wants to go into anything I haven't made copies of, there's going to be some panic stricken Xeroxing that holds up the deposition.
I had a boss who never, ever gave anyone clear instructions, even if you asked him point-blank before beginning the work. He always asked you to redo part of the work afterwards. He may have been borderline mentally ill; I think that his own boss (a vain, silly, society person) kept him on because he was willing to accept abuse, as long as he was able to pass the abuse on.
I worked for him for 3 years and retired early for mental health reasons. I came close to felony assault a few times.
You guys post too much. Can't you like, take turns or something?
I find partners here who insist on editing their own writing that had previously gone out to the client in final form when the same writing is used for a different purpose for the same client (and the edits have nothing to do with the different purpose).
I always want to ask, "What? Are you a better writer now having been a lawyer for 18 years and 6 month than you were when you had been a lawyer for 18 years and 3 months?"
18: We're nervously afraid that if we let up on the posting, everyone will go away and we'll have killed this lovely blog ogged left us. (This is also how all my houseplants get root-rot).
20 -- T(itan)ia at least seems to have moved past the "nervous about killing the lovely blog -gg-d left her" stage and entered the "Back when I started blogging at Unfogged, things were different" stage.
Original Gangster Management of the Budget is suggesting that we don't have lives, as if there were something wrong with that.
So that's what ogmb means. A little-known branch of the government.
Googling for myself tells me I'm really the Office of Governor Matt Blunt.
apo, I know it feels good, but please try to keep it down, or we'll have to stop.
please try to keep it down
I give the same answer as before.
So that's what ogmb means.
Original Gangster Management of the Budget (JE)
Office of Gay Management and Budget (SB)
Spotty memory on Emerson's part or Standjohnpipe Bridgeemersonplate Mindlink™?
MB is just so obvious. So is OG, in my opinion. I hadn't seen the earlier one at all.
MB is just so obvious. So is OG, in my opinion.
If it helps to move the hilarity in another direction, the -GM- stands for Georg Michael.
By the way, LB, is this deposition in some way regarding pirates? (cf. title)
whoops - sorry for the way-late response to LB's question (#13). Yep, a recovering attorney. Did the law firm thing in SF for a while before moving in-house (which I highly recommend) in Palo Alto and then quit a few years ago when I realized I had to focus on a writing career or end up rich, haggard and unhappy as a lawyer somewhere. (I prefer to be poor-ish, purdy and ridiculously happy as a writer.)