Would the Big Law market really be different if it were free of the tyrannical profits per partner chart? It’s Am Law 100 season. My former colleagues at The American Lawyer have just published their biggest issue of their year, the annual scorecard of the 100 top...
I knew better and that only makes this worse. Recently, I needed a lawyer to review an agreement. There was some vague language that made me anxious. So I called an old friend who recommended one of the partners at his big firm. The partner gave me good advice,...
Last month I gave a talk at a University of Pennsylvania Law School symposium on the business of large law firms. It’s a brief summary of some of the challenges in the market, plus a strong recommendation that firms and their clients start developing a “vocabulary of...