Ashley, our receptionist and legal assistant, is a dancer. Although her dreams of a professional dance career were “shattered” after a terrible knee injury, she nevertheless still goes to classes in Manhattan. This is quite remarkable since in addition to working fulltime at the firm, she is also a part-time law student at New York Law, where she is expected to graduate in 2019 (hang in there, Ashley, you can do it!).
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The one fact that I love recounting about Joseph is that it took him four years (maybe more) to find a pair of rain boots. This is not an exaggeration. Around the time he first started working at the firm, he was looking for rain boots. He ordered a few boots, didn’t like the fit, ordered more, again didn’t like the fit, left the law firm for an extended trip but still didn’t have the right boots. (He wasn’t afraid of sending a pair of boots back and starting again even when they came all the way from France.) When he came back to the law firm, after a year of traveling the world, he was still without rain boots, and, finally, only in the past year did he find, purchase, and keep a pair of rain boots.
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