{"id":75468,"date":"2025-07-19T13:33:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T13:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/75468\/"},"modified":"2025-07-19T13:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T13:33:13","slug":"cannibalistic-intern-fired-from-nyc-law-firm-for-biting-up-to-ten-coworkers-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/75468\/","title":{"rendered":"Cannibalistic intern fired from NYC law firm for biting up to ten coworkers: report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>A summer associate at white-shoe firm Sidley Austin began biting colleagues and roaring at them on her first day \u2014 and by the time she was canned, her body count had reached double digits, insiders told the legal news site\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/07\/summer-associates-naughty-toddler-impression-gets-her-bounced-from-biglaw\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Above the Law<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The bites were not \u201cin an aggressive, \u2018we\u2019re beefing\u2019 way\u201d \u2013 but rather, \u201ca faux-quirky manic pixie dream girl crossed with the Donner party vibe,\u201d the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>A summer associate at Sidley Austin reportedly bit up to 10 colleagues, insiders told the legal news site\u00a0Above the Law.\u00a0 Jack Forbes \/ NY Post Design<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough I\u2019ve seen pics of the results post-Biglaw Biter, and \u2018nibble\u2019 is probably too tame a word,\u201d the article\u2019s author noted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s unclear why so many people let this go before reporting the Biglaw Biter, but the rumor is she\u2019s otherwise personable and there was some reluctance to elevate the matter,\u201d the outlet reported, citing unnamed sources.<\/p>\n<p>A jaw-dropping account of the chomping spree posted to X said the girl sank her teeth into 10 colleagues, including other summer interns, associate lawyers and even an HR rep at the firm\u2019s Seventh Avenue offices.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A jaw-dropping account of the chomping spree said the girl sank her teeth into other summer interns, associate lawyers and even an HR rep at the firm\u2019s Seventh Avenue offices.\u00a0 Helayne Seidman<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was such a repeated thing that her officemate started wearing long sleeve shirts to the office because she kept getting bit,\u201d the purported insider said, as posted by the account\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/a_real_society\/status\/1944135614984847676\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">@a_real_society<\/a>\u00a0on July 12.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An image also posted to X shows a mouth-sized bruise on someone\u2019s outer bicep \u2013 an injury allegedly inflicted by the gnaw-ty intern.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The firm declined to comment. But an insider told The Post the intern bit only five employees and that exaggerations were now flooding the internet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are outright making things up at this point,\u201d echoed a Reddit user who claimed to work with the masticator at Sidley. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to ask people to please remember that there\u2019s a human being on the other end of this story \u2014 someone whose mental health is a genuine concern, and who is probably feeling like her life is ruined right now,\u201d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/biglaw\/comments\/1lxrb4q\/sidley_biter_from_someone_at_sidley\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-nyp-affiliate=\"true\">July 11 post<\/a> continued. \u201cShe made a really stupid mistake and has paid the price for it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>An insider told The Post the intern bit only five employees and that exaggerations were now flooding the internet. Helayne Seidman<\/p>\n<p>Barack and Michelle Obama famously met at Sidley Austin\u2019s headquarters in Chicago in 1988, when Michelle, then a young lawyer fresh out of Harvard Law School, was tasked with mentoring Barack, a summer associate at the time.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The firm, which boasts 21 offices globally, handles \u201ccomplex transactional, restructuring, crisis management, investigation, regulatory and litigation matters,\u201d according to its website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A twisted Big Law summer intern was reportedly tossed from an elite Manhattan law firm after repeatedly baring&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":75469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,32224,3228,52472,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,52473,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,52474],"class_list":{"0":"post-75468","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-internships","10":"tag-law","11":"tag-law-firms","12":"tag-metro","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-the-workplace","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-workplace-injuries"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114880158382582819","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}