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Originally posted by SEC_Chick
I am sure that the NYCers have better stories, but in my experience Block is just a name and doesn't actually "work" on the deals. He's too busy hosting a dinner party for the Mayor at his apartment, and anyway, he has an 8-10 year partner as his bitch, who does most of the work. You get a couple of calls from his secretary asking you you "Please hold the line for Mr. Block" but when he's on the calls he clearly hasn't paid enough attention to the issues and his bitch has to help him out. Not a whole lot of actual lawyering going on, but I am sure his clients are happy, because they have Dennis Block on their deal.
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This sounds about right. The client is paying for the big name, and thus the big name needs to appear and bluster from time to time and show that he's actively managing the deal-team by randomly firing associates during meetings when he makes an obvious fuckup. (I firmly believe that those associates were like "yeah, Dennis, I'm so fired. See you Monday" but I don't actually know.)
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(BTW, wasn't there a rumor that he was getting the boot from CWT a few years ago for being such an A-hole (and being so expensive)? I wonder why that didnt go through)
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I don't remember that - there was much ink spilt about that being the reason he was fired from Weil, a good part of CWT's rep as one of the crappiest holes for an associate to get stuck in was due to his singularly abusive presence, and there were a lot of rumors that his portables were nothing like what CWT had been led to expect, but I don't recall rumors that CWT also wanted to give him the boot. I wasn't really paying attention, though.
