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Steve Bannon - How Master Power Player Might Have Blown It, Big Time

The Drudge Report curates Politico's scathing report on Steve Bannon's insecure status in the White House.

Once unthinkable, he could be included in the predicted August purge of those being labeled as adding to the Trump Administration's problems. That's when the President  Donald Trump will be on vacation and can give his full attention to who's a keep and who's a throw back.

Already, the world knows that Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein are on thin ice. In a tweet former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District Preet Bharara quipped if they get the boot as he did perhaps they can join him teaching law at NYU. Robert Mueller isn't sitting pretty either. Maybe there's also a  teaching slot for him too at NYU.

According to sources, Bannon committed the unforgivable crime against The Donald. That was to be in a position to be given credit for Trump's winning the election. Time magazine, for example, featured Bannon on its cover for his genius in manipulation. And "SNL" also packaged him as the "Grim Reaper." 

Seasoned about how power operates, Bannon should have known not to upstage any player with more power. Instead he should have leveraged his cunning to have Trump come across as the architect of all the winning moves during Campaign 2016.

Currently, Bannon is laying low. Politico puts it this way:

"Steve Bannon has largely disappeared from the White House's most sensitive policy debates - a dramatic about-face for an operative once characterized as the most powerful man in Washington."

Reflection: Power might be easier to get than to hold onto. As William Shakespeare observed, "Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown." We already know that Trump doesn't sleep all that much. 

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The Preet Turns Out To Be Very Funny Guy - Will He Go Road More Traveled by Comics Like Al Franken

On his Tweeter feed The Preet (Preet Bharara) is hilarious.

It's put together inn a highly sophisticated manner. Actually, it's just the the way writers create the comic monologues for late night.

So, who knows, that line of work - humor - could be his Next. Comedy has been a proven platform for election to public office. Think Al Franken. The Preet belongs in the U.S. Senate. The sooner the better.

In one tweet The Preet predicts that perhaps Jeff Sessions and Rod Rosenstein can join him in teaching law at NYU. That is, after U.S. president Donald Trump gives them the boot, as he had The Preet.

On Abovethelaw.com, lawyer-journalist Kathryn Rubino has complied the best of The Preet's wry observations about these strange times. From the look of today's news, e.g. Sean Spicer resigns, they are bound to get plenty more strange. 

Should we start a crowdfunding site for The Preet's campaign for the U.S. Senate? 

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Goodbye Sean, We Hardly Knew Ye

No surprise, Sean Spicer is gone. 

As the New York Post reports:

"White House spokesman Sean Spicer abruptly quit Friday morning after a major blowout with President Trump over the appointment of Manhattan financier Anthony Scaramucci as communications director." 

Now, the smart money is wagering: Who will be next to loop in The Great Employee Churn.

Meanwhile members of the media are likely cancelling their summer vacation plans. There will be no dog days of August.

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Job Interviews - Approach Them As If They Are FBI Interrogations

A skilled job interviewer seduces the applicant into the open, give-and-take framework of a conversation. That process mirrors the fundamentals of FBI interrogations.

That reality is outed in the 2017 book about the unique experience of having Saddam Hussein as an American prisoner. Written by Will Bardenwerper, "The Prisoner in His Palace" documents how both the FBI guards and the leader who would be executed for human atrocities comported themselves.

Part of all that was the need to interrogate, which the FBI euphemistically refers to as "a conversation with a purpose." It seems the cunning Hussein enjoyed the process. He had a good time revealing what he perceived as his "achievements" and smoothly concealing the information he wasn't willing to give up.

A shrewd job applicant adopts the same control over the interview. Of course, like Hussein, we want to position and package ourselves as being authentic in that conversation. But we also are skillful in gliding away from traps set to eliminate us as possible hires.

The classic case requiring management is when the previous or current job comes up. The interviewer wants the real story why we left it, want to leave it or had gotten the boot. It is a red flag to be evasive. Instead, we leverage all the non-verbal clues such as leaning in and having a relaxed facial expression.

Then we deliver an accurate story about the past, but spun to serve our self-interest. No negatives are allowed.

Even if it's well known the boss is difficult we spin that as providing useful lessons in diverse styles of management.

We were fired, not laid off. We discuss how much we have learned about the best fit for our talent. We applied to this particular job because it is the right fit.

After the interview, we grab a trusted professional to do an audit on what we might have done well and what not so well. There is no one absolute way to ace an interview, just as there is no one absolute way to have a meaningful conversation.

The only universal is: Our performance art improves with practice.

Hussein grew into the role of being a cunning player.

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O.J. Simpson - From Hero to Anti-Hero Back to Hero

In these troubled economic/political/social times the dominant meme is overcoming adversity. Even if we were the ones who caused it. So, O.J. Simpson, who's been granted parole, has again returned to be a hero. Our hero. Our OJ.

Beginning around October 1st, when he is released from Lovelock Correctional Center, it will be the OJ Show.

That was once what his career had been about. The star in sports became a loved character in commercials. We didn't even mind that we were watching a commercial. All we experienced was the OJ aura.

Then with the allegation of having committed two murders he became an anti-hero. Interest was still there. Big Time. But its roots were embedded in our fascination with outlaws. Here in small town Ohio, the Austintown public library has a special display on books about criminals - international, national and local (Cleveland).

As an anti-hero things were bound to get out of hand for OJ. And they did.  There was the robbery. Then there was actually serving prison time.

But that was then.

At age 70, this return hero can be a role model for all of us who are aging. He can show us how we can keep putting together something new. Hopefully it will be lucrative since he still owes on the $33.5 million in the civil lawsuit. And it is bound to be meaningful. Adversity changes us. Often for the better. 

We have our OJ. America has its hope back. 

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"Spencer Marin v. Quinn Emanuel" - Allegation of Racial Discrimination

Among the alleged miscreants in this racial discrimination lawsuit is the Trial Logistics Director at Quinn Emanuel: Yllen Cruz. The time frame was when that big law firm was handling the Apple v. Samsung trials.

According to plaintiff Spencer Marin, who was a secretary, Cruz referred to him as a "n___er." She also, according to him, questioned his sexual orientation.

When he complained about this to the law firm, he contends it retaliated. He felt forced to leave the firm.

Here are details from lawyer-journalist Kathryn Rubino at Abovethelaw.com. And here Rubino provides a copy of the complaint.

Marin is being represented by D. Maimon Kirschenbaum who also represented document reviewers suing for overtime pay. Continually, Rubino has covered all aspects of the document-review niche in the legal sector. Here is one of her columns.

Soon enough myriad document review tasks, though, will be taken over by artificial intelligence. The official term for that is "technology-assisted review." 

As for staff positions, such as Marin's former one at Quinn Emanuel, they have been vanishing quickly in large law firms. The headlines keep coming about triple-digit number of staffers being offered buy-outs or simply facing layoffs.

This is old hat in the corporate world. Way back in the early 1980s, when word processing first became available, we in communications at Chrysler were forced to key in our own documents. Yes, we "lost" our secretarial support. That was classified as "cost efficiency."

In the power structure of BigLaw, staffers aren't in a position of strength. 

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The Strange Case of the Rescinded Job Offer, After Employee Already Is In Job - Jeff Sessions

During the 2007 Crash in the legal sector, law firms did rescind job offers which had been made. And that was that.

Those who assumed they had a position after graduation had to scramble to land another spot practicing law. Or they wound up leaving that career track and trying something else. 

Currently we are living out a bizarre version of that.

In this play out, the job offer has been rescinded after the employee has already been in the job for a while.

In The New York Times interview, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that he wouldn't have hired as U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions had he known Sessions would recuse himself from the Mueller investigation.

In addition, Trump added information that could knock Sessions out of the box anyway. During the confirmation proceedings, Sessions denied previous interaction with the Russians. Trump said that wasn't accurate.

Sessions says he is staying in the job as long as appropriate. Here is the coverage by tabloid the New York Post. One wonders how long that will be.

We are living in strange times.

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Gerti Muho Played Out Fantasy of (some) Fired Employees

In 2013, Gerti Muho got the boot from hedge fund Fletcher Asset Management.

He then went on to actually pull off, at least for a while, the kind of revenge some fired employees only have fantasies about. 

As lawyer-journalist Kathryn Rubino reports in Abovethelaw.com, Muho sucked out the data from his former employer's IT system. He borrowed the identities of former employees and interns. Through that caper he was able to have a bank in Monaco wire him $2 million and land a $500,000 business loan.

He enjoyed the good life, until apprehended. Last week a federal jury convicted him of 40 counts of bank and wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and money laundering. The sentencing date is September 26th. 

And, Muho joins the long list of law school graduates who assumed they could game the system. His alma mater is Berkeley Law. 

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