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If you head over to Vegas Inc. you will see an article detailing the 54,000 sq. ft. Hughes Center office Gordon Silver left behind when it moved to its new 2,883 sq. ft. first floor office. Oh how the mighty have fallen. From the article, it looks like their new office does not have a well-ventilated cigar and poker room known as the Partners Lounge. Which got us thinking? Do any other firms have the equivalent of a Partners Lounge? How about a game room? We know Craig Kenny has got a basketball court. What other special features do Las Vegas law offices have?
The arrogance reeking from that article about G&S makes me nauseous. A Partners Lounge? Sickening.
I'm disapointed we don't get any pictures of the inside of this office.
Gordon Silver's current managing shareholder, Mark Dzarnoski, said the firm had “a pretty beautiful office” and that as a pipe smoker, he made use of the partners' lounge.
“It was my favorite room,” he said.
^^^^^^
Pipe smoking in the partners lounge? This is like a Mad Men self-parody. LOL.
Hubris doesn't just befall the gambling tourists in this town, it takes down many non-gambling locals too. Vegas has a special way of lulling people into a false sense of success and arrogance only to abruptly yank everything away. These stories of dramatic rises and falls are countless across the decades in this town. We're all aware of them, and yet each of us thinks we are the exception. Which is why such dramatic burn outs will continue happening for as long as Vegas exists.
Very true words and a very sad reality.
We spend freely on super-absorbent Kleenex to dry the tears of our associates. That's kinda it.
Here's a photo I took in the partner's lounge when the place was in its heyday: http://www.vintageadsandstuff.com/viewpipes7.jpeg
Well played, well played.
We have coloring books and toys so clients can bring their kids to meetings if they need to.
My office has a large desk in the storage/copy room where my kids spend countless hours copying, collating, hole punching and filing for me.
GS made some decisions that we can easily criticize with the benefit of hindsight. Yet, if the bold gamble had paid off, it would be a large, successful firm with a superb Partner Cigar Lounge. Reach for the sky. You only live once.
I don't think you need hindsight, but that's just me. Foresight should be able to identify that for every seven fat cows there will be seven lean cows (a reality that the denizens of Vegas, both lawyer and lay person alike, refuse to accept despite our history); that you can't have more chiefs than Indians (whether by actual title, equity or ability to originate business); that things like poker rooms and pipe smoking lounges are nothing more than an expensive frat house for fat, middle aged men.
But then again, maybe for some, these things are not foreseeable.
Leverage is great on the upswing and brutal on the downswing. Yes, grandpa would've thrown a fit at fancy offices and large credit lines, but what if it had worked? What if the aggressive growth model and image of success had helped nudge GS up to the big leagues? We'll never know. LSC supposedly died because of legacy costs; GS appears to have died because it reached for greatness and stumbled.
Fat, middle-aged men? I'm sure that all the lady partners were more than welcome in the pipe and cigar lounge!
GS reached greatness, you are funny!
GS and 50 cent had legitimate reasons for projecting flash. Clients and competitors look at what you wear and your crib as signs of how incredible you are.
Flash neither 50 or GS owned
My office has a golf club that I swing around in case the paralegals get unruly.
Is that you Kutner????
Fore!
I sprung for an icemaker in the office refrigerator. Oh, and a dishwasher. Moving on up to that deluxe apartment in the sky.
Anyone pick a copy of vegaslegal magazine? I have decided I am going to leave the top three buttons undone from now on. I need a bigger chain….
If you are a woman, thank you! If you are a man, please don't.
What the H is vegaslegal magazine?
Blog is mother fuckin' dead
Blog is dead man!
I imagine the first hundred or so times it stung to hear someone say this, but over time it has become a term of endearment.
GS seems to be getting ripped on way more than LSC did. Is it because LSC imploded in an orderly fashion, other than the craziness of trying to skip out on a large outstanding line of credit? GS seems to be getting beat up because of the way they imploded, with attorneys running out on others, and their debt issues and now and Partner Cigar Lounge. It's hard to feel sorry for people who pull a "fitty cent" and try to act a certain way rather than just run the business to maximize profitability.
If I was a client and found out that the firm was spending money on a cigar lounge rather than simply billing me and every other client a few dollars less, I'd be pissed.
You presume the clients weren't being brought into the lounge.
The partners at both of those firms came out looking bad. It's shocking and sad to see this.