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Originally posted by Hank Chinaski
At my first Biglaw the firm arranges a Karaoke machine for the Christmas Party. My best friend is this big sloppy guy, who also happens to be hilarious, very theatrical and a great singer.
He is in the commercial litigation group, and is seemingly well thought of by the anal types that are in the group.
Okay, about 250 lawyers at the party. People have been singing boring safe stuff, including my friend. And then my guy gets up for the second time. Barry Manilow's "I Write The Songs," but total lounge lizard.
There's the line "when I look in a young girl's eyes"- he starts improvising with lines like "when I look in your eyes Greedy partner Jones," for big law humor it was way up there, and actually close to being professionally done.
Standing in the crowd directly to my left is the head of the litigation group with one of his mid-level toadies. as my guy starts scatting, dept head leans over to toadies and says "do you know what that sound is? that's the sound of a career dying!"
Then he saw that I heard, and our eyes locked and I realized how fucked up biglaw really was. Why rent the Karaoke machine if using it was fatal?
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It's the perfect trap. If you refuse to go up and sing, you are a pussy. A shrinking violet type not cut out for litigation. Litigation is a form of performance, after all! If you do sing, you lack judgment. Loose cannon. What the hell is a guy like this going to do or say in front of a judge?
