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Today comes the news that Mark Levy, a recently laid-off attorney at Kilpatrick Stockton, committed suicide in his office.
As we all blog and gossip about law firm layoffs, salary roll-backs and job deferments, we cannot lose sight that behind each number is a man or woman, a father, wife, daughter, son, parent. They…
The most anticipated issue of the American Lawyer, the AmLaw 100 (link to chart), is hitting the Internet and our in-boxes this week. Ohhhh, give me a bowl of popcorn and a strong cup of coffee … the numbers are in:
The 2009 AmLaw 100 – How Bad?? (really bad)
I came across a great post today by Jim Hassett, author of “Legal Business Development.”
In his current blog post, Marketing advice for Harvard Law School students (Part 1 of 2), Mr. Hassett lays out the scenario facing current law students, whether they are from Harvard, NYU, UCLA or anywhere else:…
If a little role-playing can spice up a marriage, can it do some good for a dying AmLaw 200 firm?
That’s the premise of a FutureFirm (pdf),
a game of strategy, skill, and endurance. The goal of the game is to craft a new law-firm business model that provides the best odds of your firm
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I came of age in the era of Ronald Reagan, Trickle-Down Economics and Gordon Gekko. In my lifetime, the economy always got better, jobs always paid more, and there was something bigger and better down the road.
Not so for today’s associates and law students. The trends that I am seeing do not…
Law Firm Competitive Intelligence: Law Firm Economic Cycles — Part III
This is a must read. Ann Lee Gibson is all over this stuff and has incredible insight…..
Ed Poll in his recent blog post argues that while law firms that fail, fail of their own “unique paths to destruction,” yet successful law firms are all alike.
According to Ed, these firms:
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What would you do if your boss walked into your office and said, “Hey, take a year off and we’ll pay you $80,000. And, your job is guaranteed when you return.”
According to Legal Blog Watch, that’s exactly what has happened to the 1,300 associates at Skadden.
While the paranoid cynic in me…
For those of us who stopped drinking the mega-firm cool-aid, it’s sometime difficult to articulate why we believe that the mega-firm model just doesn’t work well.
I will concede to my esteemed colleagues that there are some mega-firms that are effective and operate well, but those firms hold few of the AmLaw 100 spots.
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