shanty law firms where the yearly salary is less than the yearly bonus enjoyed by biglaw associates. often not offering health insurance or meaningful experience, toilet law firms have high turnover and low morale.
jdjive had a great blacklist of toilet law firms in manhattan, but the partners of some of the named toilet law firms thugged themselves out and threatened to break some kneecaps. of course, they could have opted to file a lawsuit, but since they are toilet law, anyone could have caught their bluff, because they would have lost if they tried. going tony soprano was simpler.
by Sir Humps a Lot January 24, 2007
a law firm, usually specializing in insurance defense, that hires graduates of TTT law schools and pays them poor wages and deducts their health insurance premiums from their paychecks. these firms are often discussed on sites like JDjive and xoxohth because they are considered the worst law firms to work for in a given city.
each year, the Golden Toilet Award is presented to the toilet law firm in New York City with the most mouthbreather behavior for that year.
by sginsberg February 16, 2007
a law firm with less than 50 employees that pays its associates far below the market rate while practicing an area of the law with limited or no potential for upward mobility. such firms typically practice insurance law, especially its lower forms like "no fault" or "insurance fraud defense".
there are many toilet law firms in new york city, known for their dedication to providing cheap representation to insurance companies at the expense of quality work or decent pay.
by scottginsberg February 13, 2007