Anonymous Lawyer

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Anonymous Lawyer (AL) ist fiktiver Personalpartner einer amerikanischen Großkanzlei. Der Blawg ist wirklich sehr lesenswert. Die New York Times hat den AL folgendermaßen beschrieben:

HE lives at the law firm, blowing off his wife’s dinner parties, not to mention the birth of his son. He finds no satisfaction in his work, but he is trapped by his high salary and partner title.

He disdains everyone lower in the hierarchy: the smarmy $2,400-a-week summer interns, the idealistic associates who want to help poor people on company time, the associates who have the audacity to become pregnant and his incompetent secretary who broke the crystal plaque he received from a client.

He is, in short, a petty, cynical, sexi…