A summer associate got hit by a car tonight. Nothing terribly serious -- a couple of scrapes and bruises, but nothing's broken and he's fine. But it's on the firm's conscience. We organized a downtown scavenger hunt for the summer associates -- hired an outside firm to plan this thing, a lot of the firms do it -- take your picture in front of these five famous buildings, get a takeout menu from this spot, find a certain famous person's house. Stuff like that. And crossing the street, racing to the end, one summer associate stepped into oncoming traffic and... whoops. One of his team members called 911 and then called the recruiting coordinator; once he got to the hospital, they called me; and now a bunch of us are on a conference call while the rest of the summer associates are at dinner at a top-notch restaurant. There's always the fear that these boondoggle events will backfire somehow -- someone will get food poisoning, someone will have an allergic reaction, someone will get killed in a random drive-by shooting. And so now we have to re-evaluate, especially if this kid sues us. We did, after all, tell them to run fast, and the first place team wins a prize, and all that stuff. There's a case to be made. Not a great one, but still. It was on our watch. We should keep them locked up in the offices. It's not like they won't do anything for an offer anyway. We expend all of this energy trying to "sell" them on this place, but for a lot of them the energy they'd need to find another firm to hire them is enough that we can do anything we want, say we do it because we're better than the other firms, and we'll get them back. It's all in how we pitch it. "Working late is prestigious" ; "Lunches are for wimpy lawyers" ; "Stapling packets of paper is the most critical work we do."
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