Modus Operandi: Ten Tips to Help You Navigate Drinking at Office Events

The favorite topic of conversation amongst inebriated lawyers is describing the most wasted their colleagues have ever been, usually followed by explaining, in vivid detail, the well-deserved consequences of the event. I’ve heard, and in some cases, witnessed, an associate projectile vomiting over her senior associate and eventually partner, another slipping, breaking their tail bone and getting arrested and my personal favourite, the senior associate who jumped into the ocean while the waves were receding thus managing to crack open his forehead. In addition to these, there are hundreds of less colourful but equally embarrassing fights, confessions and minor misdemeanors resulting from the excesses of office parties. As my mother often says, nobody can really stop you from making a fool of yourself but this list is going to try anyway.