Typos occur. That’s only a reality of our more and more digital life. We write a lot — on social media, emails, texts — that not every part will get the extraordinary scrutiny of, say, a filed temporary, and sure, errors get made. There’s not a lot you are able to do besides come clean with it and transfer on.
One Biglaw associate, Holland & Knight’s Christopher Nolan, confirmed a great deal of humor when he made an oopsie. He not too long ago posted this on LinkedIn:
Did you catch the error? Or is your mind so conditioned by Biglaw it switched assassins to associates? And, as a result of it’s the web, Nolan was known as out on his error, with responses to his submit noting, “I presume you imply ‘associates,’ not ‘assassins.’” And Nolan responded, “Get to know us higher — your assumption isn’t right!”
And he continued the bit. When a colleague coyly famous the error:
Nolan responded:
Now, Nolan has since edited the submit, however not earlier than it was documented by the great people at RollOnFriday. However what a nice response to an sincere mistake (properly, we assume it was an error, not a confession).
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