You can e-mail this to whomever you want.

-----Original Message-----
From: Dianna Abdala [mailto: dabdala@msn.com]
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2006 9:23 PM
To: wak@kormanlaw.com
Subject: Thank you


Dear Attorney Korman,

At this time, I am writing to inform you that I will not be accepting your offer.

After careful consideration, I have come to the conclusion that the pay you are offering would neither fulfill me nor support the lifestyle I am living in light of the work I would be doing for you. I have decided instead to work for myself, and reap 100% of the benefits that I sew.


Thank you for the interviews.


Dianna L. Abdala, Esq.


----- Original Message -----

From: William A. Korman
To: 'Dianna Abdala'
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 12:15 PM
Subject: RE: Thank you


Dianna -

Given that you had two interviews, were offered and accepted the job
(indeed, you had a definite start date), I am surprised that you chose
an e-mail and a 9:30 PM voicemail message to convey this information to
me. It smacks of immaturity and is quite unprofessional. Indeed, I did
rely upon your acceptance by ordering stationary and business cards with
your name, reformatting a computer and setting up both internal and
external e-mails for you here at the office. While I do not quarrel
with your reasoning, I am extremely disappointed in the way this played
out. I sincerely wish you the best of luck in your future endeavors.

- Will Korman


-----Original Message-----
From: Dianna Abdala [mailto: dabdala@msn.com]
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 4:01 PM
To: William A. Korman
Subject: Re: Thank you


A real lawyer would have put the contract into writing and not exercised
any such reliance until he did so.

Again, thank you.


----- Original Message -----

From: William A. Korman
To: 'Dianna Abdala'
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 4:18 PM
Subject: RE: Thank you


Thank you for the refresher course on contracts. This is not a bar exam
question. You need to realize that this is a very small legal community,
especially the criminal defense bar. Do you really want to start
pissing off more experienced lawyers at this early stage of your career?


-----Original Message-----
From: Dianna Abdala [mailto: dabdala@msn.com]
Sent: Monday, February 06, 2006 4:29 PM
To: William A. Korman
Subject: Re: Thank you


bla bla bla


-----Original Message-----
From: William A. Korman [mailto: wak@kormanlaw.com]
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 7:59 AM
To: 'David Breen'
Subject: FW: Thank you


Did I already forward this to you?



-----Original Message-----
From: David Breen [mailto: dbreen@bu.edu]
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 9:47 AM
To: 'William A. Korman'
Subject: RE: Thank you


OH MY GOD!


Where to begin?


First of all, how unprofessional.and secondly, it is "reap what you
'sow,'" now "sew".if she is going to use a clich?, couldn't she at least
spell it right? And WTF is with her "blab la bla"? Does she not read
your e-mail about it being a small community?! So, finally, can I
forward this along to some folks? I am sure they would love to see how
the up-and-coming lawyers are comporting themselves! (Clearly she did
not go to BU!!!) J


-----Original Message-----
From: William A. Korman [mailto: wak@kormanlaw.com]
Sent: Friday, February 10, 2006 9:55 AM
To: 'David Breen'
Subject: RE: Thank you


You can e-mail this to whomever you want.

I received this email exchange in a forward yesterday. It was first forwarded February 10th, and on February 15th, when it got to me, I could track the path of forwards to put myself at 38th remove. That is astounding. 38 people forwarded the email exchange on, most to multiple people, the majority on the same day it began to be emailed. If I, someone at a remove from the law world, received this in 5 days (which included a weekend in which it was only forwarded on twice), and the email was headed in a myraid of other directions, through law firms, law schools- the entire legal community I'm sure,- hey I sent it to someone at UCONN law school- it is insane to speculate how many will come to know the sad tale of the spoiled Dianna Abdala.
How do I know she is spoiled? This whole thing was on the front page of the Boston Globe today. Check it out.

An excerpt from the Globe article:

"Abdala, who described herself as a ''trust fund baby," was admitted to
the Massachusetts bar last year and said that since then she has ''just
been taking it easy" because ''I worked hard in school." She decided to
respond to Korman's job posting because ''I wanted to establish somewhat
of a career for myself," she said. ''No one wants to be living off daddy."
Abdala's father, George S. Abdala, is a Springfield lawyer."

Also, for the record, I think "a real lawyer" as Dianna Abdala so eloquently puts it in her email, would sue over this whole proliferation of forwards. What has she got to lose at this point?