It emerged this week that Rurik Jutting, the banker currently awaiting trial for the murder of two prostitutes in his Hong Kong apartment, tried to become a lawyer.

RollOnFriday reported last week that Jutting was briefly a poster boy for Latham & Watkins, after the firm used his review of its vac scheme in its promotional material. Since then readers have written in to say that they worked alongside him at vacation schemes at both Linklaters and Skadden.*

Jutting quit his job at bank of America Merrill Lynch a couple of days before the women were found dead. It has been widely reported that his automated email reply read "I am out of the office. Indefinitely. For urgent enquiries, or indeed any enquiries, please contact someone who is not an insane psychopath."

    A vac schemer at Skadden yesterday - how it might have looked.

Skadden failed to respond to request for comment. A spokesman for Linklaters said that "the firm does not wish to comment on this matter".

*Did you work with Jutting? If so, was he a perfectly sound, normal guy as most people have been suggesting? Or did he threaten to take an axe to you over your business card? Click here to write in.
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Anonymous 14 November 14 09:53

From what I have read Jutting had the option to go into law but chose banking because of the dolla. So "tried to become a lawyer" not strictly accurate.

Anonymous 14 November 14 10:49

I'm not a humorless PC-type by any stretch of the imagination, but personally I think this is insensitive in the extreme, to the victims (who I'm not aware have been confirmed as "two prostitutes") and their families and no doubt others:

"*Did you work with Jutting? If so, was he a perfectly sound, normal guy as most people have been suggesting? Or did he threaten to take an axe to you over your business card?"

This is sub-Murdoch tabloid-style, rather than anything approaching wit/satire.

Anonymous 14 November 14 17:58

I am quite dumb-founded by this. It is in astonishingly poor taste. I know those at RoF make their living by mocking the misery of others - but this is on another level...not funny, or clever.

Anonymous 15 November 14 13:12

I wonder if "anonymous user 14/11/2014 17:52" has ever worked at either of those firms, or indeed actually knows much about them. No, thought not...

Anonymous 17 November 14 11:38

I did work with them and against them and "anonymous user 14/11/2014 17:52" is correct. Hilarious bunch of social misfits - I am thinking of writing a book.

Anonymous 18 November 14 11:15

Oh lighten up you tedes. This is RoF, what do you expect? And it is actually quite funny.

Anonymous 18 November 14 14:19

Anon @ 11.15: Sorry, I'm missing the humour in two women suffering gruesome fatal attacks.

Anonymous 19 November 14 09:27

Anon @ 2.59 : Sorry, I thought this was a story about a man who killed two women. Am I getting mixed up?

Anonymous 27 November 14 00:13

Anon @ 09:27 Yes, the man killing the women is the main subject, with the humour being the auto-reply on his email. RoF is not just a satirical site; they provide news and, where they can, add satire.