{"id":126916,"date":"2025-07-16T15:23:50","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T23:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/16\/who-knew-biting-other-lawyers-was-frowned-upon\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T15:23:50","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T23:23:50","slug":"who-knew-biting-other-lawyers-was-frowned-upon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/16\/who-knew-biting-other-lawyers-was-frowned-upon\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Knew Biting Other Lawyers Was Frowned Upon?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biglaw summer associate let go after biting upwards of 15 people at the firm<\/a>. Now that sounds crazy, but that\u2019s because it is. We also discuss a lawyer\u2019s biting response to a demand letter<\/a>. A lot of the professional decorum advocates objected to the tone, but at a certain point how does the profession pushback against aggressive and unfounded demands without public shaming? There\u2019s not another readily accessible disincentive. Finally, we address the gnashing of teeth in conservative media ecosphere over Superman being an immigrant<\/a> and the knots they\u2019re willing to tie themselves into in order to avoid the obvious. <\/p>\n

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Biglaw summer associate let go after biting upwards of 15 people at the firm<\/a>. Now that sounds crazy, but that\u2019s because it is. We also discuss a lawyer\u2019s biting response to a demand letter<\/a>. A lot of the professional decorum advocates objected to the tone, but at a certain point how does the profession pushback against aggressive and unfounded demands without public shaming? There\u2019s not another readily accessible disincentive. Finally, we address the gnashing of teeth in conservative media ecosphere over Superman being an immigrant<\/a> and the knots they\u2019re willing to tie themselves into in order to avoid the obvious. <\/p>\n

The post Who Knew Biting Other Lawyers Was Frowned Upon?<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biglaw summer associate let go after biting upwards of 15 people at the firm. Now that sounds crazy, but that\u2019s because it is. We also discuss a lawyer\u2019s biting response to a demand letter. A lot of the professional decorum advocates objected to the tone, but at a certain point how does the profession pushback […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}