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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.

Rees…

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The Passover Seder, the oldest continuously observed religious ceremony in the world, tells the story of the Jews’ Exodus from Egypt. Jewish tradition says that people of each generation must imagine that they personally had departed from Egypt, and the sages…

I left Big (trying to be Mega-) law several years ago for a much smaller (75 attorneys) boutique. I’ve never been happier.

Personally, I find the Big Law model to be broken. Year after year, I would see rates go up, and partners hit a wall with what their clients would pay. Good partners, with…

Back in 1977, Bates v. Arizona paved the way for legal marketing as a concept, industry and career for many of us.

The concept of free speech, while a cornerstone of our society, seems to be lost on the law. It has been tossed aside again and again because, for some reason, lawyers and the…

This year I had a choice: To LMA or not??

For the first time since 1998, I am not on an LMA Committee, local board, or the International Board of Directors. My program (which was AWESOME, by the way) was rejected by the conference committee, so I was flexible on whether to attend the LMA…