When I started this website in 2017, I never imagined it would grow this large. I'm not a for-profit writer, the kind obligated to produce articles every week. I only write when I hear of something troubling related to O'Melveny, and then only if there is no risk of violating defamation law. But the website has now grown so large that I guess it needs a table of contents. Any way, I hope this work helps people seeking information about this law firm.
- Introduction and summary
- Retiring this blog
- Addendum
- O'Melveny partners gettin' down
- O'Melveny's chief operating officer almost killed himself
- Artifice and the failure of First Republic Bank
- Don't expect sympathy from O'Melveny's partners; they have their own problems
- O'Melveny allegedly tricked a surgical center into accepting its cheap medical insurance
- What an of counsel makes at O'Melveny
- Attorney sues O'Melveny after being fired for "too many pro bono hours"
- What an O'Melveny partner's profit distribution documents look like
- Judge criticizes O'Melveny's lack of professionalism
- The world of banking lawyers, and our current high inflation
- Greg Jacob and his friend Michael Luttig
- Life at O'Melveny
- Law can be an unpleasant profession (and my exchange with Amy Wax)
- If a minority sues for rape or discrimination, use one of their people to fight them
- Dan Petrocelli's son was arrested
- Elon Musk tried to harm a government lawyer who did his job, instead of monetizing it
- Winners and losers in America's opioid era
- O'Melveny's suspicious "independent investigation" prompts a coordinated response
- Bimal Patel got his money at PayPal
- New rape accusation shows why O'Melveny's "independent investigations" aren't trustworthy
- O'Melveny embarrasses their client with a reportedly "absurd" letter
- Why I can't expand this site beyond O'Melveny & Myers
- O'Melveny's generous perquisites
- After relying on O'Melveny, California's governor gets blamed for a needless two billion dollar loss
- O'Melveny's friend Thomas Barrack got arrested for doing something ingrained in O'Melveny's culture
- McDermott, Will & Emery shows how easy it is to game Firsthand/Vault's "best firm to work for" award
- Follow-up to the Brian Brooks and Bitcoin post
- Brad Butwin's Jewish privilege
- Brian Brooks used his position in government to boost Bitcoin, and I'm curious to see how this plays out
- O'Melveny tried to stifle anti-corruption laws
- Another example of reporters fixing wrongdoing in the legal system
- What it means to "think like a lawyer," and the COVID-19 pandemic
- A dark profession
- O'Melveny hopes its clients get sued
- Favoring the children of prominent people
- Old tale; new tactics, victims and weapons
- O’Melveny chose not to stop racist comments about a judge, and partners "dating" associates
- "Top-ranked" restructuring partner gets recruited to O'Melveny; leaves two months later
- O'Melveny lawyer threatened scientists in a way that had "life-and-death consequences"
- O'Melveny's human resources
- O'Melveny's Chair Brad Butwin lied about coronavirus pay cuts
- Law students complain that O'Melveny's Vault rankings are misleading
- The Mansfield Rule and the lucrative world of law firm diversity marketing
- O'Melveny hires attorney accused of mistreatment at his prior firm
- Another case in which O’Melveny fights alleged Chinese torture victims
- Monetizing government positions
- Attorney joins O'Melveny, loses her health and her child, and O'Melveny's benefit provider is fighting her disability claim
- The feast or famine life of an O’Melveny partner
- Allen & Overy walks away from O'Melveny merger
- O'Melveny's revenue-obsessed lawyers might not give the best advice
- Subjective, false and misleading
- Did O'Melveny ruin Vault's honor system?
- O'Melveny's opioid "pipeline"
- Giving up revenue to help opioid victims
- An O'Melveny alumnus gets arrested while negotiating an "independent investigation" retainer
- O'Melveny shows off money they made off of an alleged rape victim's misery
- Does an O'Melveny lawyer's profit motive interfere? (Please let me tell you about "margin")
- Please feel free to contact me if you need help
- CBS's accused sexual assaulter hires O'Melveny
- O'Melveny & Myers and Allen & Overy -- two firms that reportedly enabled Harvey Weinstein's sexual assaults -- are about to merge
- How O'Melveny reportedly whitewashed sexual harassment at Lionsgate
- Which law firms lie on their Vault self-reports? Here is a way to find out
- Another threatening letter from O'Melveny
- More whitewashing
- The late Judge Reinhardt's time at O'Melveny
- O'Melveny's sexual harassment investigations
- O'Melveny reportedly threatened one of Harvey Weinstein's victims
- You had to pretend a lot
- Vault tells minorities to join shrinking and demographically stagnant firms
- Don't complain about torture or discrimination to Bank of America's General Counsel David Leitch
- O'Melveny's threatening letter
- O'Melveny, torture, and mandatory arbitration and nondisclosure agreements