Ropes & Gray is a big law firm which works with a number of drug companies. One of them is Pfizer where they assisted the company in catching an anonymous whistleblower in the HIV sales force.
Using the Wiki Scanner, here's some of the changes we found Ropes & Gray had done to the Wikipedia entry for the firm.
Last year Ropes & Gray prided itself on being a swell company to work for:
Ropes & Gray's summer program is also widely recognized for its combination of fun, good work experience, and phenomenal dining. Events include baseball games, theater, and epic parties in Boston to begin and end a summer of ecstacy. Longtime summer program head Doug Meal (famous for his "Meals with Meal") is the architect, spearhead, and soul of the summer experience, and he reports to no one (except for maybe the Managing Partner, but that is more a relationship of equals.) The only force capable of containing Meal is longtime sidekick Alison "A-Bomb" Bomberg. Ropes & Gray has long been the creme de la creme of Boston law firms, and is strategically expanding operations across the country.
But apparently someone felt left out from the "phenomenal dining" and "summer of ecstacy," hence added this:
However, after this summer the dynamic duo will be replaced by corporate raider Susan Galli as she takes the helm of the summer program. She may not know what she is getting into.
And that entry was followed by this addition:
There's also one really cool summer associate in New York, Seth Piken. His office-mate though, is a jerk.
Is Seth Piken a real lawyer, you may ask?
He sure is . . . this is what he says about his summer job on Ropes & Gray's web site: "The most valuable aspect of my summer program experience was having the opportunity to work with associates and partners on a daily basis. Every lawyer that I worked with took the time to carefully explain assignments and concepts that were new to me. Only through this type of hands-on experience could I learn what it is really like to work in different areas of the law." Seth Piken, a member of our 2006 Summer Program, has accepted the firm’s offer to join Ropes & Gray LLP following her graduation from Fordham.
No mention about his office-mate, the jerk . . .
In the end, as you might imagine, the Ropes & Gray Wikipedia entry was completely re-edited and all references to "epic parties," "phenomenal dining" and "summer of ecstacy," and even "cool summer associates" like Seth Piken and his office-mate, "the jerk" are gone.
Perhaps Wikipedia readers are the biggest losers, no longer getting these insights.
- Peter Rost, M.D. is a former VP of Pfizer and the author of Killer Drug and The Whistleblower.
Seth Piken is a cool guy.
Posted by: Martha Plante | September 12, 2007 at 08:55 PM
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Posted by: MAR | September 13, 2007 at 05:21 PM
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