Category New York
Pippin, Vanya et al., and another Michelin star
As much as I love the Met Museum, what I really love in New York are the performing arts and the food. So after spending this morning at the Met, I walked back down to Midtown and spent the rest of the day eating and seeing two wonderful shows. The first show I saw was […]
Punk and bagpipes at the Met
There’s nothing quite like an unstructured Saturday in New York — especially when it follows a super-structured and tedious day of recruiting. After spending all day yesterday interviewing eager young law students (and then spending much of the night making notes and getting ready for all the reference checks and meetings with the hiring partners […]
In which Jean Valjean doesn’t sing, but Rory does.
I’m in New York right now, sitting in my hotel suite on the 20th floor above Times Square. Tomorrow I’ll be interviewing kids from Columbia Law School who want to come to work at the firm. The interviews start early, so I came up in advance. And, as I always try to do, I came sufficiently in […]
My job does have some perks
Remember that crazy deal I worked on in December and January that had me living out of a hotel (or, more accurately, a conference room) in New York for so many weeks? Well, the woman who led the business team for my client in that deal was honored tonight for her efforts to promote diversity […]
New York – Done?
At 3:00am last night (this morning?) we discovered that we had finally — FINALLY — reached the what looked like closure on all of the transaction documents on this crazy, never-ending deal. All that remained to be done was secure a few outside approvals and sign the dang things. It was a weird moment. The […]
New York – Deja vu all over again
Welp, I’m back in New York in that conference room where I spent most of the month of December. This deal isn’t done, you see, and the client decided it wanted to get everyone back in the room for more face-to-face negotiations. They’re getting nervous that they’ll lose the deal if they don’t sign it […]
New York – Trojans and a hot tin roof
I. How do you survive a five-and-a-half hour opera? By eating a hearty breakfast immediately beforehand . . . Quiche lorraine, Greek yogurt with rawnola (a.k.a. birdseed)with a side of Victor Hugo and by sneaking a handful of granola bars into the opera house to be eaten during the third intermission. It was odd to […]
New York – No man is an archipelago!
The opera tomorrow starts at Noon and runs for five-and-a-half hours, which means that I have to spend both Friday night and Saturday night in New York: There just aren’t any trains that would allow me to come up in the morning before the show or to leave and go home after the show. What’s […]
Superpowers, and so can you
It was 5:00am when the parties reconvened to resume negotiations. None of us had slept for at least 24 hours; the mood was grim. As the other side filed into the conference room, the first thing out of their mouth was: “Man, you guys look terrible! Well, except for you,” pointing at me, “you look […]
Picture this
Late stages of negotiations for a major deal with a professional sports team: 3:30am. Law firm conference room. Seven people waiting around a table made to seat 25 people. Papers and cups and laptops everywhere. One guy is dozing with his feet on the table. Two are staring blankly at their computer screens. One woman is […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 