From the New York Post: A twisted Big Law summer intern was reportedly tossed from an elite Manhattan law firm after repeatedly baring the tooth, the whole tooth and nothing but the tooth.
A summer associate at white-shoe firm Sidley Austin began biting colleagues and roaring at them on her first day — and by the time she was canned, her body count had reached double digits, insiders told the legal news site Above the Law.
The bites were not “in an aggressive, ‘we’re beefing’ way” – but rather, “a faux-quirky manic pixie dream girl crossed with the Donner party vibe,” the outlet reported.
“Though I’ve seen pics of the results post-Biglaw Biter, and ‘nibble’ is probably too tame a word,” the article’s author noted.
“It’s unclear why so many people let this go before reporting the Biglaw Biter, but the rumor is she’s otherwise personable and there was some reluctance to elevate the matter,” the outlet reported, citing unnamed sources.
The report points to a post by X user @a_real_society, who appears to have insider information on the situation.
“The bites were in fact not confined to one incident/event, rather she was biting people all summer and nobody was reporting it for some reason. Apparently she bit at least 10 people over the course of the summer (including summer associates, associates and an HR person) and it was such a repeated thing that her officemate started wearing long sleeve shirts to the office because she kept getting bit,” reads the account shared by @a_real_society.
The account cites other bizarre details, including that the biting worker is a “horse girl” who says “rawr” regularly.
In response to the X post, one person quipped, “I guess this is a benefit to working remote that I hadn’t anticipated.”
Someone who says they know the “Sidley biter” posted the following details on Reddit:
I know the Sidley biter and know first-hand what happened. I just want to ask people to please remember that there’s a human being on the other end of this story – someone whose mental health is a genuine concern, and who is probably feeling like her life is ruined right now. Please think before you comment, because this could end really badly.
People are outright making things up at this point: she didn’t bite 10+ people, and she didn’t spend $2,000 on a bottle of wine. She made a really stupid mistake and has paid the price for it. But the fact that people are coming on here to invent stories and dox her is unacceptable.
Her name and law school were left up in a post on this subreddit for over an hour yesterday. She’s deleted her LinkedIn, there’s already an article about her on ATL, and she’s no doubt inconsolable right now. I really don’t want to see this spiral further.
Yes, the headline of someone being fired for biting a coworker is objectively funny, and attention was always going to follow. But there is a line, and there is a vulnerable person at the center of this. She’s getting 100x more attention than the Latham summer who was let go for sexual assault—an objectively far worse offense than mistakenly thinking it’s funny or quirky to bite your new friends.
By all accounts, she was well liked and is not a bad or horrible person. She is just clearly immature/eager to be liked, and she made a serious error in judgment: one that’s now going to follow her around for a long time. Please just keep that in mind before you comment. I’d really hate to see this end in a tragedy, and for everyone to look back wondering why nobody said anything.
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