Diskriminierung und Mobbing im Wert von 15 Mio. USD?

Working on the 28th floor means you’re among the elite at Sullivan & Cromwell. Of the firm’s 600 lawyers, fewer than 60 — 23 partners and a few dozen associates — are part of the mergers-and-acquisitions group, a sort of firm-within-the-firm that each year advises and executes close to a trillion dollars in deals and earns tens of millions of dollars in fees. All the stereotypes about life at a stodgy white-shoe firm — the masochistic hours, the glorified grunt work, the borderline abuse at the hands of the partners — seem magnified to the young associates there, if for no other reason than that the firm’s blue-chip clients, like AT&T and AIG and Goldman Sachs, need their lawyers on call night and day to meet sudden-death deadlines. To get this kind of work done quickly and accurately, you need a certain tunnel vision — and, when tempers flare, a very thick skin. Mit diesen Klarstellungen (wohl an Außenstehende gerichtet) beginnt die ausführliche Schilderung des New York Magazine zum aktuellen Fall Aaron Charney. Irgendwann dann passierte Charneys Angaben zufolge das Unglaubliche, das schier Unfassbare: Charney says he had walked into Krautheimer’s office to get a document he needed when Krautheimer tossed the p…