The Skadn Gays: Out and Proud, or Tacky and Loud? - Above the Law

That’s the bate currently ragg the Los Angel office of Skadn. It was triggered by some exuberant, multilored emails om a Gay Colleague, promotg the Skadn LA AIDS Walk team. From the lic (but sporadilly updated) Skadn Insir: [T]he e-mails weren’t well received by everyone bee “they are pretty aggrsive and unprofsnal. Jt the tone of voice, the five thoand lors, the namg of nam of who ntributed and who didn’t.” Our source ntued: “And of urse, some ignorant fools are gog around sayg, “I don’t go around llg myself the ‘straight associate’! Anyway, was pretty funny. It was a gay gay gay Friday.” Check out the full post, which reprts the (lerally) lorful email, over here. And read about another stance of public shamg at Skadn, after the jump. From a Skadn source: This email… was sent by one of the summer associat [near the end of the 2007 summer program]. Attached to the email was a spreadsheet that, as promised, named all of the summer associat and how much they had paid towards the recment gift. You gotta love the summer associate’s rortg to public shamg… Here’s the email: “Eher today or tomorrow please make a ntributn to the legal recg staff thank you gift on behalf of our entire summer class. Enclosed please fd a spreadsheet of who has and who has not ntributed their $40 to the gift. If you have not already done so, please swg by [redacted’]s office, or somehow get the money to her before Thursday when she’s gog to buy the gift.” “I know a fair amount of the folks on the spreadsheet have rotated to other firms/offic, but for the dozens of still here please do the right thg and ntribute your fair share and not have your summer associate lleagu pick up the slack.” “I am sure that the folks recg, who have worked very hard and gone above and beyond the ll of duty to make sure that we have an enjoyable and tertg summer, will appreciate this very much. Thanks, [redacted]” And here’s a tty rponse om another summer: “Hi All, I thk K. had a fantastic ia of ntributg for gifts to the recg staff. But why stop there? My officemate, J.S., whom I’m sure you’ve met, was an credible mentor, advisor, and most of all, iend.” “I thk we should open up our wallets and hearts and show J. how much he means to all. To avoid ambiguy as to the ntributors and ee-loars, I’ve attached a spreadsheet tailg the nature of everyone’s generosy or lack thereof.” As a firm, Skadn has a reputatn for beg hard-nosed, effective, but ls genteel than s more whe-shoe petors. Is llg out the cheapi via mass email — a strategy that generally works, even if ’s a trifle tacky or gche — a reflectn of the Skadn culture? (Also, while we’re talkg about Skadn, n someone pass along the mors “about Skadn’s 60th Anniversary Party and the partner vio beg ma”? We hope that said vio volv a rap performance by Sheila Birnbm. Move over, Missy Elltt — the Queen of Toxic Torts is the hoe!) Callg you out LA [Skadn Insir] Blah blah blah [Skadn Insir]