Every firm has at least one: the secretary with the “holier than thou” attitude; the senior paralegal who tries to assign work to a junior associate; the office administrator who tries to tell you how to run your case. A reader posted this question the other day: “[C]ould you write about bullying of junior associates [...]
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When hierarchy is turned on its head: the staff bully
Posted in Class structure, Secretaries / paralegals on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Musings on class structure: lunches and the firm holiday party
Posted in Class structure on November 17, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Ancient Greece had patricians, plebians, freemen, and slaves. India had its caste system. The feudal society in 12th century Europe had lords, guild masters, journeymen and serfs. The capitalist society of 19th century England had capitalists, landlords, petty bourgeois. peasants and wage laborers. And in the modern law firm in the United States, there are [...]
