{"id":140361,"date":"2025-12-30T17:27:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/30\/best-of-25-summer-associates-naughty-toddler-impression-gets-her-bounced-from-biglaw\/"},"modified":"2025-12-30T17:27:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T01:27:23","slug":"best-of-25-summer-associates-naughty-toddler-impression-gets-her-bounced-from-biglaw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/12\/30\/best-of-25-summer-associates-naughty-toddler-impression-gets-her-bounced-from-biglaw\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Of \u201925: Summer Associate\u2019s Naughty Toddler Impression Gets Her Bounced From Biglaw"},"content":{"rendered":"

The post Best Of \u201925: Summer Associate\u2019s Naughty Toddler Impression Gets Her Bounced From Biglaw<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Vampire or Biglaw summer associate? You be the judge. <\/p>\n

This is a story you\u2019re really going to chew on for a while. A Sidley summer associate in the New York office who we\u2019ll refer to as Biglaw Biter (for reasons that will soon be apparent) was let go after a series of incidents with other employees. What happened you ask? She bit other people at work<\/em>. You are not reading this incorrectly: a Biglaw summer associate bit people at the firm \u2014 with her teeth.<\/p>\n

(For the record, before settling on the alliterative Biglaw Biter as the summer\u2019s code name, we did consider Sidley Masticator, Scrumptious Summer, Champion Chomper, Mike Tyson of Biglaw, and the close runner-up, Associate Lecter.)<\/p>\n

According to insiders at the firm, pretty much from the start of the summer, the Biglaw Biter started chomping away at other employees at Sidley Gnaw-stin \u2014 not in an aggressive, \u201cwe\u2019re beefing\u201d way, but more of a faux-quirky manic pixie dream girl crossed with the Donner party vibe. But like, you\u2019re in NYC for the summer \u2014 if you want to get your kicks by biting people, there are more consensual ways to do it.<\/p>\n

The final chomp-count is thought to be in the double digits (UPDATE<\/strong>: insiders now confirm there were 5 people chewed on at Sidley this summer) \u2014 which is an awfully long time for the nibbling to continue. (Though I\u2019ve seen pics of the results post-Biglaw Biter, and \u201cnibble\u201d is probably too tame a word. No one should have marks on their person after an interaction with a co-worker in Biglaw \u2014 emotional and psychological scars only!) It\u2019s unclear why this went on so long before reporting the Biglaw Biter, but the rumor is she\u2019s otherwise personable and there was some reluctance to elevate the matter.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just wild that this happened in Biglaw. A single bite is enough to get a toddler written up in an incident report from daycare. And if the biting goes on multiple times? That\u2019ll get you kicked out of daycare.<\/p>\n

And Biglaw too, as it happens.<\/p>\n

Not since the aughts have I heard a tale of such out-of-pocket summer associate behavior. There were strip club visits<\/a> and expense accounts gone wild<\/a>, but obviously, the classic of the genre is Aquagirl<\/a>. Above the Law has long referred to her exploits as the bar for summer associate behavior (though the Biglaw Biter just might take the crown). For those that were in their preschool biting phase back in 2006, Aquagirl<\/a> was a Cleary summer associate who drunkenly stripped down to her underwear at an event at Chelsea Piers and jumped into the Hudson River. Ultimately she had to be rescued in a boat \u2014 but still ended the summer with an offer.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Law, host of The Jabot podcast<\/a>, and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer<\/a>. AtL tipsters are the best, so please connect with her. Feel free to email her<\/a> with any tips, questions, or comments and follow her on Twitter @Kathryn1<\/a>\u00a0or Mastodon @[email\u00a0protected].<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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