When Lawyers Attack With Email

The summary - a young lawyer applies for a position with a firm, which extends an offer, then cuts the offered salary; the young lawyer fires off an email declining the position, after which the fun really began.

Korman, of course, could not allow this to go unanswered. I picture Samuel L. Jackson's character in "Pulp Fiction," gun in hand, saying "Are you finished? Well, allow me to retort." Wrote Korman: "Thank you for the refresher course on contracts. This is not a bar exam question. You need to realize that this is a very small legal community, especially the criminal defense bar. Do you really want to start pissing off more experienced lawyers at this early stage of your career?" It gets better. Or worse. Or both, really. Abdala responded with the following email: "bla bla bla." Now, the email exchange has received a celebrity status of its own, having made the rounds first of numerous law firms, then to the inboxes of people outside the profession, to the blogosphere, and then the Boston Globe. That's a lot of mileage for "bla bla bla." It's also a prime example of why one should never say something in email that they will seriously regret if it becomes public. document.write("Email Murdok here.") Drag this to your Bookmarks. Add to document.write("Del.icio.us") | Yahoo! My Web David Utter is a staff writer for Murdok covering technology and business.