Hearsay on the subject of the bar exam results

"My mentor was like “Hmmm?! Not top 10? How about top 20? No? Any prize? Any consolation prize? No? Arbitral awards? Hmm? *calls HR*”

Reported by a friend who works in the same building as the Microsoft people:

People from Microsoft were in the lift with me when there was an error with channelnewsasia in the lift television and you could see the underlying Windows shell.

MS person 1: “they’re still using XP and not vista”

MS person 2: “…I think we need to talk to somebody in marketing.”

Me: Hey I'll be attending a client meeting at the time the bar results are announced. Could you check mine and tell me if I passed?

Friend: Yes. I'll tell you if you've passed. And the additional news too... I hope I'm not the additional news.

Overheard:

"I'm in a rush to see the fortune-teller I fixed an appointment with 3 months ago to ask if I should leave practice."

Another day, another law firm website.

"We are a team of ten lawyers in Sofia plus five associates across the country and we do not intend to grow bigger just for the sake of looking western. One has to remember the Columbus rule that he who goes too far to the west will turn up in the east. But we think we are capable of putting together a larger legal task force of top free lancers on specific projects."

"From our personal experience we know that a lawyer is made not when a bar exam is passed or a directory is entered but when he overcomes the first professional humiliation and with a fierce indignation wins the case in the appeal instance. In the fire of that indignation a new lawyer is born. To achieve this he should not be afraid to call things by their own names and should have the courage of the Little Red Riding Hood saying : “This long-teeth creature in the bed is not my grand mother”."

"It should be very clear to those who would use our services that we have not recently dined with a minister and we can demonstrate no familiarity with a top magistrate."

"The world used to work differently, where people respected other people's weekends."

Emails

A: Can you see my partner?

B: He's not in my room.

Moments later...

B: Oh you mean he wants me to see him???

I received an email from a friend which featured the signoff

"XXXXX & XXXX LLP
Transnational Legal Solutions"

I didn't know what Transnational Legal Solutions meant.

Another friend hazarded a guess:

"If transsexual means to change your sexuality, transnational must mean
to change your nationality. A transnational legal solution would be a
solution that allows you to change nationality.

Immigration law practice?"

Quote of the hour

"Unlike law, banking is less dependent on what credentials you have and more dependent on whether the people that interviewed you like your personality, willingness to work like a dog and ability to kiss ass."

Wong Partnership, supposedly one of the top law firms in Singapore, has converted to a limited liability partnership.

They are now calling themselves "WongPartnership Limited Liability Partnership."

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Overheard: Looks like liability wasn't the only thing that was limited in WongP LLP.