Posted on 06/09/2002 5:16:31 PM PDT by Lady In Blue
Night night!
The terrible thing is that so many lives (individual and family) were destroyed during that period. I remember how the priests used to tell us how "private" sin (adultery, for example) ended by infecting the entire Body of Christ. And then they gave themselves up to nothing but full-throttle individual sin that has, indeed, seriously infected the entire Body of Christ.
Skadden, Arps, [something], Meagher & Flom is a law firm, with its main offices in New York, and other offices all over the country, in Europe, Asia and who knows where else. (I temped for a while in their Boston office.) You do know the current general opinion of lawyers? Of course you do.
Skadden, Arps was probably the first law firm to provide shower facilities and cots or couches so that nobody would ever have to go home. (Most of the big ones do now.) The Boston office orders in lunch for attorneys so that they have no excuse to go out to eat. The office is 'unofficially' open Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's. They really do have a reputation among law firms as being utterly cutthroat -- and they are.
There is no tactic so low-down, so despicable, so utterly unfair (but marginally legal) they won't use. (Now you know why Clinton sought them out.) Even small nastinesses are not beneath them -- "no, we won't send you another copy of the pleading, you should have hung on to the first." Their litigation attorneys do not allow their secretaries to tell a caller -- even a client! -- that the attorney is out of the office, just that he's "not available" (I always wondered whether they expected gangland guns to be after them -- as I type this, I guess it could be!).
I did it about two seconds after someone posted the address link. I hope a lot of us do the same. He is a wonderful, holy man. He needs our support and prayers and encouragement.
And a lot that weren't utterly destroyed were maimed. What an awful era it was! And we're still reaping the fruits!
I remember (and recently reminded my husband I had done so!) telling my husband when AY got into the "consulting" side in the mid 80s I thought it was a little dodgy since they did the taxes for those companies as well. And look at Enron.
LOL! Yes, I can tell that you too have been through law firm hell. Skadden Arps was just one of the gang - I can't even think of a decent law firm.
I worked (in computers) at one where a poor associate tried to break a window on the 55th floor and throw herself out. EMS carried her out tied in a sheet from one of the overnighter beds.
I always felt that, in some ways, it was a religious problem. People were miserable, and had no ethics and no lives because their mainstay, the Catholic Church, had basically abandoned them.
Not that they were all Catholics. But Catholics don't realize that if the Church collapses, everything dependent upon it also collapses.
I'm mulling the idea of a coordinated letter-writing campaign. Watch this space.
I heard this addressed by someone today. The liberal left who would want open homesexual priests, etc. and the right (us) that would like to have rules and policies in the American Church tightened up and then standardized with the blessing of the Holy Father.
And likewise, you.
You get it! Bravo.
The WSJ ran an article about Skadden doing these things ages ago -- I really think they were the leader.
My own hellish experience is limited to what used to be the "big 8" accounting firms. But there is nothing quite so cut throat as lawyers.
Bishop Joseph Sullivan seemed pretty good yesterday... but Bruskewitz sure was wonderful. I didn't catch anyone else mentioning "homosexuality" and very few mentioned "dissention."
Which sounds like a disagreement between "CINOs" and Catholics.
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