Seasonal clerks take up too much office room, are rarely helpful and sometimes smell, but it is not often that a law
Such is the case with ex-Mallesons seasonal clerk David Sutherland. Sutherland, not to be confused with his namesake – David Sutherland, the director of ’Love, Sex & Eating the Bones’, a film about ‘a guy who is addicted to watching pornography‘ – says he clerked at the top tier firm in 2008.
In comments appearing beneath an ALB article on its awards night, David wrote:
My cohort of fellow summer clerks who received a priority offer (and on the whole didn’t accept it) perceived the firm has [sic] generally arrogant, and taking their position in the market for granted. It seems like nothing has changed…Mallesons people think they’re superior, when in reality, they’re not. AAR & Freehills are superior (and less full of themselves) in my opinion. I like Blakes too…They are excellent lawyers, but as a firm, I found them to be less impressive than others I have worked for… I have the requisite experience and knowledge, and I made an assessment.
Are Mallesons lawyers ‘arrogant’? Is it arrogant for David to assert that he has the ‘requisite experience and knowledge’ to make an assessment about AAR, Freehills and Mallesons? One thing’s for sure: this little outburst can’t be doing David’s career any favours.
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David is clearly an idiot. I’m not sure what’s worse: (a) the fact that he’s stupid enough to publicly make such a career limiting move, or (b) that he thinks anyone cares.