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1. Posted by hung like a shingle - 4 months, 1 week, 4 days, 23 hours, 10 minutes ago

   hows the big firm life going, chumps?

2. Posted by associate - 4 months, 1 week, 4 days, 18 hours, 42 minutes ago

   That just means that everyone is going to have to take even shorter vacations; like 4 day weekends max.

   I mean, it’s hard enough to take a full week off, but if I couldn’t answer urgent email, then I couldn’t be gone for more than a couple of days.

   
   While I would appreciate the sentiment, a policy like, “We value our attorneys’ sanity and expect they will be completely unavailable for large portions of their vacation times,“ would seem to be a better balance.

3. Posted by whitlockd@cwbpa.com - 4 months, 1 week, 3 days, 5 hours, 36 minutes ago

   Those lazy Brits.

4. Posted by Al DeMeola - 4 months, 1 week, 3 days, 2 hours, 18 minutes ago

   What they DONT tell you is that the lawyers have to take their LAPTOPS, not their blackberry’s since they’re expected to download, print, edit and return 35 page documents within 24 minutes!  It’s an epidemic, though—Ive seen non-lawyers with non critical jobs checking their blacberry’s while waiting to cross the street; like anything meaningful would need such immediate attention.  It’s become a status symbol for people to hold these.  Pretty soon, you’ll have knockoff mockups of these for 8 year olds to play with in school.  I say to them—get real, man!

5. Posted by Nancy Lieberman - 4 months, 1 week, 3 days, 1 hour, 26 minutes ago

   Maybe it will catch on.

6. Posted by Chris - 4 months, 1 week, 3 days, 1 hour, 19 minutes ago

   I never understood the people who criticize those who carry a blackberry and work on things throughout the day. Maybe the blackberry crowd just isn’t as lazy as other folks. I mean, I get annoyed when people are talking, loudly, on their cell phones in public. But doing e-mail/text stuff? Who cares? People have an inferiority complex about it. If I want to check my e-mail on the bus or at lunch or any other time, what’s it to you?

7. Posted by Ronnie - 4 months, 1 week, 3 days, 59 minutes ago

   Knockoff mockups? Please, they’ll have the real thing!  I love vacation.  I don’t work on vacation.  I don’t take phone calls during vacation.  I vacation during vacation.  I REFUSE to call my boss during her vacations.  Nope, last thing she needs is to hear from me.  Beautiful thing about domestic; I know exactly what needs to be done before I leave, and she does too.  I have no problem with people blackberrying their little hearts off, just don’t do it when we’re out at a social gathering.  If we go to a baseball game together, don’t spend the first seven innings blackberrying your girlfriend!  That’s just rude.  And don’t pay so much attention to blackberrying that you forget little things like crossing the street and getting off the metro at the right stop, and then getting mad because someone does do backflips to accommodate you.  Just common courtesy, though I must say the thing that aggravates me most: walkie talkie phones!  Who wants to hear your conversation?!?  Now THAT is an aggravation of the worst sort!

8. Posted by fakin' it - 4 months, 1 week, 2 days, 23 hours, 23 minutes ago

   you realize i’m reading the NYT on my blackberry as i walk across the street, right?

9. Posted by Super Lawyer 2008 - 4 months, 1 week, 2 days, 20 hours, 54 minutes ago

   Hey, Al - what’s a blacberry?

10. Posted by JJ Walker - 4 months, 1 week, 2 days, 19 hours, 52 minutes ago

    The Brits hate anything black.