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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of my worst (now, in hindsight, funniest) moments was when I was a mid-level associate. The partner I worked for had a well-deserved reputation for being a ball-buster in litigation -- the type who never consented to adjournments and would send out massive, excessive discovery requests to adversaries before long weekends.

One day this partner asked me to cover a motion on one of his cases because he had to be in court on another matter. When I showed up to cover his motion, the judge asked why the partner hadn't come himself and then added that I was going to wish he had. The judge then proceeded to reprimand our firm for our sleezy tactics and ordered $10,000 sanctions. I had the "fun" task of getting to tell the managing partner about that. I've never forgiven the partner for setting me up as his fall guy.

Fun times.[/quote]

Hmm....interesting. My judge when I was clerking used to ask that of associates when they came in to argue motions that were particularly absurd or annoying. He would predict whether or not the firm would send associates and partners and if a motions was particularly awful, he'd say, "No way are they sending in a partner for this. Some poor associate is going to be sent to argue this piece of junk."[/quote]

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