Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom may be one of the largest law firms in the world, but when it comes to the milk of human kindness, it may be a few pints short, so to speak.

At least that’s the impression one cannot help but get from perusing an e-mail exchange between a New York associate and the firm’s accounts department over his expenses that is doing the rounds on the US bulletin boards.