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Two days in a row? Well now it’s just getting silly.
Yesterday I talked about running into a photo of an old high school friend on a law blog. Well last night I ran into another photo of someone I know. This time, it was a dude I used to work with in my “big law firm” days. Turns out that said dude, David Derrico, is the focus of a nice little Law.com article.
Just as I left the Firm to make my mark on the internet with this here site, so too did Derrico decide to spread his wings online. Seems he’s got himself a rather interesting idea, a website (www.headhuntercalls.com) where attorneys can explicitly opt-in or opt-out of receiving headhunter calls. I’ll tell you what - those calls are annoying as all-can-do, no doubt about it. That being said, I did learn about some interesting opportunities once or twice that I wouldn’t have learned about if I had been on an opt-out list. Well, that’s assuming that the headhunters in question had actually abided by the opt-out list in the first place, since it’s really their choice whether to, uhm, opt-in to it in the first place.
Point being - as the article points out, there are definitely some reasonable concerns about the site’s viability. But it’s still an idea with some solid potential and I’m definitely pulling for Derrico. Hell, even if I thought it was a terrible idea, I’d still root for him simply because success means he doesn’t have to return to the Firm. And I’ll always root for someone being able to keep themselves out of the Firm’s grasp. Pointy, slimy, tentacly grasp.
When I talked about Dave Hoffman yesterday, I was able to share a fun little story about him calling someone a bitch during a high school debate. I don’t have any such stories about Derrico (and any stories I might, theoretically, have about the boy are probably not stories for public consumption). But I will say that he’s as good a drinking buddy as one can ask for (he was a Firm lawyer after all, so of course he can drink), and that’s really the highest compliment I can personally pay someone.
