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anonymous user 07/09/2012 09:42 Rate it 31 Report as offensive Hah! What a massive arse! What was Linklaters doing employing this tool in the first place?
anonymous user 07/09/2012 09:56 Rate it 24 Report as offensive Classic case of trying to appear smarter than you are - fail
anonymous user 07/09/2012 10:30 Rate it 12 Report as offensive This is why, broadly speaking, he got the boot.
anonymous user 07/09/2012 11:07 Rate it -65 Report as offensive Clearly ironic - unless there is other info?
anonymous user 07/09/2012 11:27 Rate it 32 Report as offensive A tad florid but he makes a very valid point in the last paragraph. I remember feeling the same when I bailed out of the firm I trained at.
anonymous user 07/09/2012 11:49 Rate it 7 Report as offensive Think he was trying to make the point that most of the lawyers he worked with are arses... which would not be a surprise.
anonymous user 07/09/2012 12:41 Rate it 97 Report as offensive [i]Classic Dux[/i]
anonymous user 07/09/2012 12:58 Rate it -8 Report as offensive What a tool; weak plagiarism of V's speech.
K-how 07/09/2012 13:26 Rate it 25 Report as offensive Surely he fitted in perfectly there? Surprised they let him go!
anonymous user 07/09/2012 14:22 Rate it 9 Report as offensive I think I'm in love
anonymous user 07/09/2012 18:07 Rate it 34 Report as offensive I think the intention must have been for Linklaters to read that and think "how could we let that one slip away?"... Sadly, some trainees exhibit a certain arrogance, (which is often tempered once they qualify) and simply don't fit in.
anonymous user 07/09/2012 19:42 Rate it -8 Report as offensive Actually he didn't get the boot, he got a better job.
Legal Alien 07/09/2012 20:24 Rate it 44 Report as offensive This is not a resignation email this is a departure email. Get it right rof.
The Random Apostrophe 08/09/2012 16:58 Rate it 0 Report as offensive Yes. Legal Alien would know.
anonymous user 09/09/2012 11:24 Rate it 3 Report as offensive This guy sounds like a w@nker - even if he is being ironic
anonymous user 09/09/2012 14:03 Rate it 2 Report as offensive I like it. Good on you chap. The top firms are able to attract the brightest graduates. Such people are able to employ a greater variety of words to express themselves. Most of the comments above are Marxist in nature - why shouldn't the intelligentsia use florid prose? You wouldn't get that kind of email at Dickinson Dees or Harvey Ingram LLP. Embrace the differences.
anonymous user 10/09/2012 17:30 Rate it 127 Report as offensive This is cringe-worthy intellectual masturbation. He probably read it 50 times before sending, and 20 times afterwards. I wouldn't be surprised if some of these comments were made by him too. Hideous.
anonymous user 13/09/2012 16:55 Rate it 8 Report as offensive Why cant lawyers just cut to the chase - you always have to extend every sentence. Please can anyone who puts there resignation letter in just say " Im leaving, good bye and if you would like to keep in touch heres my number". why go through all this rubbish which means nothing. Thanks (legal recruiter).
anonymous user 13/09/2012 19:11 Rate it 5 Report as offensive Yeah, "so long and thanks for all the fish" would suffice. Intelligentsia indeed. A trainee with a theasaurus and access to google does not make them part of intellectual elite.
anonymous user 02/11/2012 17:28 Rate it 0 Report as offensive 'Brevity is the soul of wit'. That's a Shakespeare quotation that most people at Dickinson Dees or Harvey Ingram would know.

anonymous user
07/09/2012 09:42

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Hah! What a massive arse! What was Linklaters doing employing this tool in the first place?

anonymous user
07/09/2012 09:56

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Classic case of trying to appear smarter than you are - fail

anonymous user
07/09/2012 10:30

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This is why, broadly speaking, he got the boot.

anonymous user
07/09/2012 11:07

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Clearly ironic - unless there is other info?

anonymous user
07/09/2012 11:27

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A tad florid but he makes a very valid point in the last paragraph. I remember feeling the same when I bailed out of the firm I trained at.

anonymous user
07/09/2012 11:49

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Think he was trying to make the point that most of the lawyers he worked with are arses... which would not be a surprise.

anonymous user
07/09/2012 12:41

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[i]Classic Dux[/i]

anonymous user
07/09/2012 12:58

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What a tool; weak plagiarism of V's speech.

K-how
07/09/2012 13:26

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Surely he fitted in perfectly there? Surprised they let him go!

anonymous user
07/09/2012 14:22

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I think I'm in love

anonymous user
07/09/2012 18:07

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I think the intention must have been for Linklaters to read that and think "how could we let that one slip away?"...

Sadly, some trainees exhibit a certain arrogance, (which is often tempered once they qualify) and simply don't fit in.

anonymous user
07/09/2012 19:42

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Actually he didn't get the boot, he got a better job.

Legal Alien
07/09/2012 20:24

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This is not a resignation email this is a departure email. Get it right rof.

The Random Apostrophe
08/09/2012 16:58

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Yes. Legal Alien would know.

anonymous user
09/09/2012 11:24

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This guy sounds like a w@nker - even if he is being ironic

anonymous user
09/09/2012 14:03

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I like it. Good on you chap.

The top firms are able to attract the brightest graduates. Such people are able to employ a greater variety of words to express themselves. Most of the comments above are Marxist in nature - why shouldn't the intelligentsia use florid prose?

You wouldn't get that kind of email at Dickinson Dees or Harvey Ingram LLP. Embrace the differences.

anonymous user
10/09/2012 17:30

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This is cringe-worthy intellectual masturbation. He probably read it 50 times before sending, and 20 times afterwards. I wouldn't be surprised if some of these comments were made by him too. Hideous.

anonymous user
13/09/2012 16:55

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Why cant lawyers just cut to the chase - you always have to extend every sentence. Please can anyone who puts there resignation letter in just say " Im leaving, good bye and if you would like to keep in touch heres my number". why go through all this rubbish which means nothing. Thanks (legal recruiter).

anonymous user
13/09/2012 19:11

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Yeah, "so long and thanks for all the fish" would suffice.

Intelligentsia indeed. A trainee with a theasaurus and access to google does not make them part of intellectual elite.

anonymous user
02/11/2012 17:28

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'Brevity is the soul of wit'. That's a Shakespeare quotation that most people at Dickinson Dees or Harvey Ingram would know.