"It's intense," says Tigran Guledjian, partner at Quinn Emanuel and co-chair of the firm's national intellectual property litigation practice. He helps run the hikes, and has been attending them for more than 20 years.
A legal secretary at the Big Law firm I worked at knew she was going to be fired, so the day before, she went into a bunch of partners' emails and sent their wives evidence of infidelity, printed out confidential employee evaluations and communications about bonuses/pay and left them in everyone's desk, and then cleaned out the swag closet and dropped several thousand dollars' worth of merchandise with the law firm's name and logo off at a homeless encampment.
"This is often a stressful time for families with autism or sensory issues. So I like to have this event to really bring the families together to experience and hopefully have a core memory around Red, White and BOOM!"
The partnership voted overwhelmingly to approve a non-equity partnership tier to enhance talent acquisition while retaining their traditional lockstep compensation model.