I second Karol's message!
Kathie Sweeney,
Semmes, Bowen & Semmes
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Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 14:34:05 -0700
From: C/O Steven Wong <cgsh@netcom.com>
Reply-To: cgsh@netcom.com
Subject: Re: Closing of Baker & McKenzie' Chicago Library
To: jcjanes@ucdavis.edu
Dear Bill,
I would like to politely disagree with you about not boycotting the
contractor who will eventually provide some type of library
service to B&K's Chicago office. If the Chicago law firms continue to
provide ILL courtesies to this firm, they will implicitly be condoning
the actions of the few partners at B&K who ordered the firing of the
entire library staff. The lawyers will continue to receive library
services, and, somewhere down the road in the not too distant future,
another firm will use this as a precedent to dissolve their library. The
"consultant" will be able to go from one firm to the next, and explain
that B&K got rid of their library with no dire consequences in terms of
service to the legal staff, so why not do the same and save hundreds of
thousands of dollars. I would like to see total chaos at B&K as a result
of this decision, and I would particularly like to see the lawyers who
were not consulted or informed of this action (assuming this is accurate)
do something about it!!!!!
Karol Sokol
Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton
cgsh@netcom.com
On Wed, 5 Apr 1995, William E. Sleeman wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Apr 1995, Michael Saint-Onge wrote:
>
> >
> > This is distressing news. I'd like to think that we could count on our
> > colleagues boycotting this library and the job that will be offered by
> > the contractor, but someone will inevitably take this job. This
> > individual (or probably _these individuals_) fail to see that by taking
> > these jobs they put us all at risk. We need a union!
> >
> > Michael Saint-Onge
> > Coudert Brothers
> > San Francisco
> >
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> At the risk of sounding like I support the B&M decision (I don't
> so PLEASE don't flame me in return) but having worked as a contractor for
> five years I feel compelled to speak up. Whatever decision is made within
> the law firm community in response to this decision please don't blame or
> cast aspersions on the people who win the contract or who work on the
> contract. Having been there I can't stress enough the importance of
> remembering that the decision to award a contract (to "outsource") is the
> decision of B&M not the people who win the contract. Most important,
> please don't deny them, if the people hired are librarians (my gut
> feeling is that they won't be), the same courtesy and support (ILL for
> example) that you would any other professional simply because of a
> desire to punish the "chowderheaded" decision of the firm.
>
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