Typos occur. That’s only a truth of our more and more digital life. We write a lot — on social media, emails, texts — that not all the things will get the extraordinary scrutiny of, say, a filed brief, and sure, errors get made. There’s not a lot you are able to do besides come clean with it and transfer on.
One Biglaw accomplice, Holland & Knight’s Christopher Nolan, confirmed a great deal of humor when he made an oopsie. He lately posted this on LinkedIn:
Did you catch the error? Or is your mind so conditioned by Biglaw it switched assassins to associates? And, as a result of it’s the web, Nolan was known as out on his error, with responses to his submit noting, “I presume you imply ‘associates,’ not ‘assassins.’” And Nolan responded, “Get to know us higher — your assumption isn’t appropriate!”
And he continued the bit. When a colleague coyly famous the error:
Nolan responded:
Now, Nolan has since edited the submit, however not earlier than it was documented by the good folks at RollOnFriday. However what a nice response to an sincere mistake (nicely, we assume it was an error, not a confession).
Kathryn Rubino is a Senior Editor at Above the Legislation, host of The Jabot podcast, and co-host of Thinking Like A Lawyer. AtL tipsters are the very best, so please join along with her. Be happy to e-mail her with any suggestions, questions, or feedback and comply with her on Twitter @Kathryn1 or Mastodon @[email protected].
