I just got this apologetic email message from Tom Horne of LawCrossing, a legal job board that sends me spam through my UCLA address:

Last weekend, an email concerning the website Judged.com was sent out from LawCrossing's email system to a small segment of LawCrossing subscribers. This email contained inappropriate and unprofessional language that was entirely inconsistent with LawCrossing’s editorial policy and corporate ethics...

Contrition always gets my attention, so I looked for the earlier email triggering this regret. (It had been filtered out as spam, but thank god I cc: my inbox to Gmail.) The message concerns Judged.com, a new website.

[...] Judged is the largest insider source of real intelligence on law firms in the world. Find out what law firms don't want you to know!

Judged provides an uncensored free forum where attorneys can rate law firms, discuss what it is like working inside a law firm with the people working there, and read the hottest legal news and have fun. Learn which firms rate the best and which ones rate the worst. Find out which firms have the biggest assholes, hottest staffs, highest salaries and bonuses, most job security, and anything else you could ever want to know...

It's judgment day for law firms! Join now , and find out what many millions legal professionals have already discovered on Judged !

Sincerely, Tom Horne

Gee, I think if they were really able to identify the "biggest assholes", that would be an impressive accomplishment. Why hide your light under a bushel? Or maybe the inappropriate language was "job security", which unlike assholes, you're not likely to find at many law firms.

10 May 06