In December 2000, Kelley Drye & Warren labor and employment partner Eugene D’Ablemont sat down to write a memo to the firm’s then-chairman, John Callagy, and partner Merrill Stone. The subject: the year-end bonus D’Ablemont felt the firm owed him.

The memo begins in a somewhat melodramatic fashion and with what may or may not be a sarcastic tone, with D’Ablemont writing, “This is the time of year when, as a life partner, I begin to worry whether my sainted wife Mary will have to wear her threadbare cloth coat again next year.”

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