Table of contents

When I started this website in 2017, I never imagined it would grow this large. I'm not a for-profit writer, the kind obligated to produce articles every week. I only write when I hear of something troubling related to O'Melveny, and then only if there is no risk of violating defamation law. But the website has now grown so large that I guess it needs a table of contents. Any way, I hope this work helps people seeking information about this law firm.

  1. The video former bank regulator Brian Brooks didn't want you to see

  2. Retiring this blog

  3. Introduction and summary

  4. Addendum

  5. O'Melveny celebrates their win against opioid victims

  6. O'Melveny partners gettin' down

  7. O'Melveny's chief operating officer almost killed himself

  8. Artifice and the failure of First Republic Bank

  9. Don't expect sympathy from O'Melveny's partners; they have their own problems

  10. O'Melveny allegedly tricked a surgical center into accepting its cheap medical insurance

  11. What an of counsel makes at O'Melveny

  12. What an O'Melveny partner's profit distribution documents look like

  13. Attorney sues O'Melveny after being fired for "too many pro bono hours"

  14. Judge criticizes O'Melveny's lack of professionalism

  15. The world of banking lawyers, and our current high inflation

  16. Greg Jacob and his friend Michael Luttig

  17. Life at O'Melveny

  18. Law can be an unpleasant profession (and my exchange with Amy Wax)

  19. If a minority sues for rape or discrimination, use one of their people to fight them

  20. Dan Petrocelli's son was arrested

  21. Elon Musk tried to harm a government lawyer who did his job, instead of monetizing it

  22. Winners and losers in America's opioid era

  23. O'Melveny's suspicious "independent investigation" prompts a coordinated response

  24. Bimal Patel got his money at PayPal

  25. New rape accusation shows why O'Melveny's "independent investigations" aren't trustworthy

  26. O'Melveny embarrasses their client with a reportedly "absurd" letter

  27. Why I can't expand this site beyond O'Melveny & Myers

  28. O'Melveny's generous perquisites

  29. After relying on O'Melveny, California's governor gets blamed for a needless two billion dollar loss

  30. O'Melveny's friend Thomas Barrack got arrested for doing something ingrained in O'Melveny's culture

  31. McDermott, Will & Emery shows how easy it is to game Firsthand/Vault's "best firm to work for" award

  32. Follow-up to the Brian Brooks and Bitcoin post

  33. Brad Butwin's Jewish privilege

  34. Brian Brooks used his position in government to boost Bitcoin, and I'm curious to see how this plays out

  35. O'Melveny tried to stifle anti-corruption laws

  36. Another example of reporters fixing wrongdoing in the legal system

  37. What it means to "think like a lawyer," and the COVID-19 pandemic

  38. A dark profession

  39. O'Melveny hopes its clients get sued

  40. Favoring the children of prominent people

  41. Old tale; new tactics, victims and weapons

  42. O’Melveny chose not to stop racist comments about a judge, and partners "dating" associates

  43. "Top-ranked" restructuring partner gets recruited to O'Melveny; leaves two months later

  44. O'Melveny lawyer threatened scientists in a way that had "life-and-death consequences"

  45. O'Melveny's human resources

  46. O'Melveny's Chair Brad Butwin lied about coronavirus pay cuts

  47. Law students complain that O'Melveny's Vault rankings are misleading

  48. The Mansfield Rule and the lucrative world of law firm diversity marketing

  49. O'Melveny hires attorney accused of mistreatment at his prior firm

  50. Another case in which O’Melveny fights alleged Chinese torture victims

  51. Monetizing government positions

  52. Attorney joins O'Melveny, loses her health and her child, and O'Melveny's benefit provider is fighting her disability claim

  53. The feast or famine life of an O’Melveny partner

  54. Allen & Overy walks away from O'Melveny merger

  55. O'Melveny's revenue-obsessed lawyers might not give the best advice

  56. Subjective, false and misleading

  57. Did O'Melveny ruin Vault's honor system?

  58. O'Melveny's opioid "pipeline"

  59. Giving up revenue to help opioid victims

  60. An O'Melveny alumnus got arrested while negotiating an "independent investigation" retainer

  61. O'Melveny shows off money they made off of an alleged rape victim's misery

  62. Does an O'Melveny lawyer's profit motive interfere? (Please let me tell you about "margin")

  63. Please feel free to contact me if you need help

  64. CBS's accused sexual assaulter hires O'Melveny

  65. O'Melveny & Myers and Allen & Overy -- two firms that reportedly enabled Harvey Weinstein's sexual assaults -- are about to merge

  66. How O'Melveny reportedly whitewashed sexual harassment at Lionsgate

  67. Which law firms lie on their Vault self-reports? Here is a way to find out

  68. Another threatening letter from O'Melveny

  69. More whitewashing

  70. The late Judge Reinhardt's time at O'Melveny

  71. O'Melveny's sexual harassment investigations

  72. O'Melveny reportedly threatened one of Harvey Weinstein's victims

  73. You had to pretend a lot

  74. Vault tells minorities to join shrinking and demographically stagnant firms

  75. Don't complain about torture or discrimination to Bank of America's General Counsel David Leitch

  76. O'Melveny's threatening letter

  77. O'Melveny, torture, and mandatory arbitration and nondisclosure agreements