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The 'Bla Bla Bla' E-Mail Heard Around the World
AOL News ^ | February 19, 2006 | JAKE TAPPER

Posted on 02/19/2006 11:26:39 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy

The 'Bla Bla Bla' E-Mail Heard Around the World Angry
Would-Be Employer Sends Lawyer's Message Far and Wide

Two weeks ago, newly minted young Boston attorney Dianna Abdala e-mailed a prospective employer, William Korman.

"The pay you are offering would neither fulfill me nor support the lifestyle I am living," she wrote, turning down his job offer.

Korman was not happy.

"You had two interviews, were offered and accepted the job (indeed, you had a definite start date)."

He'd already ordered her stationery and business cards, and set up her office computer and was amazed she conveyed her second thoughts by e-mail.

"It smacks of immaturity and is quite unprofessional," he wrote.

Abdala's response? "A real lawyer would have put the contract into writing and not exercised any such reliance until he did so," she wrote.

"This is a very small legal community," Korman responded. "Do you really want to start pissing off more experienced lawyers at this early stage of your career?"

Abdala finally answered, "Bla bla bla."

An ordinary office spat? Nope. Korman forwarded the exchange to a friend … and it spread throughout the Boston legal community -- and then to the Boston Globe, to the International Herald Tribune, to ABC News' "Nightline."

It was the "bla bla bla" heard round the world -- making Abdala the most famous, perhaps notorious, 24-year-old lawyer in America.

(Excerpt) Read more at aolsvc.news.aol.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: abdala; boston; email; lawyers; massachusetts; workplace
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Another tragedy caused by the Democrats losing the Whitehouse. Bimbos who would have intern jobs in a Democrat Whitehouse are roaming loose with no where to find a job.

1 posted on 02/19/2006 11:26:41 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy
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Here are the e-mails.
2 posted on 02/19/2006 11:27:42 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (What did Rather know and when did he know it?)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Lawyers on ludes.


3 posted on 02/19/2006 11:33:05 AM PST by claudiustg (Delenda est Iran!)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Is this The Former Twelfth Lady about 30 years ago?


4 posted on 02/19/2006 11:35:07 AM PST by Gay State Conservative
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To: claudiustg

Sounds like she should be the President of the Bar in her state. She has the ethics of seasoned lawyer.


5 posted on 02/19/2006 11:37:26 AM PST by Kozak (Anti Shahada: " There is no God named Allah, and Muhammed is his False Prophet")
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Perhaps she thinks that she can emulate Paris Hilton and just look pretty to earn a living?


6 posted on 02/19/2006 11:37:58 AM PST by raybbr (ANWR is a barren, frozen wasteland - like the mind of a democrat!)
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To: Bubba_Leroy

the sad thing is she will be paid to do interviews, get huge publicity, and be hired at a much higher salary somewhere.


7 posted on 02/19/2006 11:38:32 AM PST by WoofDog123
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To: Bubba_Leroy
What does William Korman do for a living?

For one, he defends the shooting an off-duty police officer... At taxpayer expense, no less.

If you're going to stick up for cop killers, at least use your own money please.

8 posted on 02/19/2006 11:38:50 AM PST by SteveMcKing
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To: Kozak

Her future is so bright she'll need sunglasses!


9 posted on 02/19/2006 11:39:05 AM PST by claudiustg (Delenda est Iran!)
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To: Bubba_Leroy
"The pay you are offering would neither fulfill me
nor support the lifestyle I am living"

So says Princess Abdala...

10 posted on 02/19/2006 11:40:32 AM PST by mikrofon (Bars Wars: The Phantom Letters)
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To: Kozak
One may add of the dyke, that the preferred spelling is: "blah".
11 posted on 02/19/2006 11:42:18 AM PST by SteveMcKing
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To: Cagey; MotleyGirl70
"Bla bla bla? Is that supposed to be like yada yada yada? It sounds lewd, lascivious, salacious, outrageous! Get out of my office."


12 posted on 02/19/2006 11:43:26 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: mikrofon
LOL!

Since when is a job supposed to "fulfill" a person?

I work for the money, and get fulfilled on my time off.

13 posted on 02/19/2006 11:44:24 AM PST by No Blue States
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To: WoofDog123

I would absolutely refuse to do any business with any law firm that would hire her. When my livelihood uis threatened I don't want to depend upon a trust fund baby who only cares if my check clears.


14 posted on 02/19/2006 11:46:05 AM PST by Bogey78O (<thinking of new tagline>)
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To: Bubba_Leroy
"Abdala finally answered, "Bla bla bla."


15 posted on 02/19/2006 11:46:30 AM PST by No Blue States
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To: Bubba_Leroy
A Movie of the Week: Queen Abdala, 100% for herself.
16 posted on 02/19/2006 11:47:29 AM PST by DejaJude (Admiral Clark said, "Our mantra today is life, liberty and the pursuit of those who threaten it!")
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To: SteveMcKing

So do you hate our second president, John Adams? Defending someone of a crime doesn't mean you support the person.


17 posted on 02/19/2006 11:47:32 AM PST by Bogey78O (<thinking of new tagline>)
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To: SteveMcKing
Regardless of how bad the criminal, the prosecution and the courts are expected to follow the law and the Constitution to the letter.

Criminal defense lawyers are the people that force the cops, the prosecution and the courts to follow the rules.

In this state, right now, there is a really nasty scandal involving the prosecution of a criminal case in which both the head prosecutor and his right hand man have been proved to have intentionally violated the law in that they hid evidence that would have resulted in a not guilty verdict.
I have served on the jury in a criminal case where the evidence would not pass the smell test. Do not be so sure that you will not need Mr. Korman's services some day. I am not a lawyer and have no lawyers in my family.
19 posted on 02/19/2006 11:49:44 AM PST by woodbutcher
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To: Herodian

She will probably try to sue him for forwarding the email.


20 posted on 02/19/2006 11:50:50 AM PST by No Blue States
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