Comments on: Reflections on My Experience as a 1992 Summer Associate in Sidley & Austin’s LA Office

By: Kyu Ho YOUM

Kyu Ho YOUM — Sun, 27 Mar 2022 16:17:52 +0000

What a beautiful sharply focused autobiography of a future leading Internet law expert in the US. I thoroughly enjoyed it because it’s about someone whose scholarly and non-scholarly work I admire. Not surprisingly, I knew little about your summer associate life, although I did know about your JD training. Nor did I read much about what was the defining moment for you in deciding on Internet law for your life. So fascinating. More such articles? Shall I assume this will appear in your full-length biography someday in the future. I’m a voracious reader of bios and memoirs, especially if they are judicial and/ or academic. At the moment, I am reading JOHN STUART MILL and WILLIAM BLACKSTONE. I am awaiting the autobios of the late Lord Lester and of Alan Dershowitz, as well as the voluminous (1,000+ pages) bio of Justice Frankfurter. My usual top priorities are those books by or of my fascinating friends or acquaintances. BTW, I hope you still remember our pre-COVID invitation to speak at the Univ. of Oregon!

By: Eric Goldman

Eric Goldman — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 23:29:42 +0000

Florie, the fact you knew that “Eric Schlachter” worked at Sidley LA puts you in an extremely elite class of my friends. Of course, we were already longtime friends by 1992! (Going on 36 years now………..)

By: Florie

Florie — Sat, 26 Mar 2022 18:49:18 +0000

Hi Eric! I knew you 30 years ago…very well! I still didn’t know this story! Though I knew about Sidley. Happy you didn’t go to OMM. My interview there with a woman partner was memorable. She praised my bilingualism and lamented that she didn’t speak Spanish…”so that [she] could speak with [her] maid.” Happy I didn’t get the offer me, either.
Didn’t understand your humor?!?!? Their loss. So clear then and now.
It is also very clear to me how far behind the 8 ball I was in my job search strategy. I didn’t have one. And the rest, as they say, is history.
Love to you and the fam!
-Florie