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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I still remember the partner coming in to tell me that just because some planes had crashed into the WTC that morning didn't mean we weren't flying out to client meeting later that day.  And another partner calling a child to explain why it made more sense to stay at the office and get some work done that day.[/quote]
I know a team of litigators who kept working on 9-11 because they had a court filing due. [/quote]

Totally different, although most courts ended up closing.[/quote]
DC firm overlooking the White House and DC evacuations.  Could see smoke fromPentagon burning and court was ITC (in DC).  I quit shortly thereafter. [/quote]

Similar experience at my old law firm that day. Also got an email that night from a partner telling people that would have to come in the whole week and following weekend to work on a filing.That was the beginning of the end of my life at a firm.[/quote]

I totally empathize with this, and I think judgment is important, but now that I am more senior and no longer an associate, I really empathize with clients, and realize that as a lawyer I am a professional, and clients hire my firm because they have problem. It may only be about who gets money, but their problem is really important to them. And you never know whether what will be significant on hindsight. So on some level I actually understand this partner asking you to work though of course don't know the context. You may have lost the case or a strategic position that helped leverage in negotiations.

Not an asshat really. I just see both sides. [/quote]

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