In Let’s not be like the lawyers (Let’s not attack the example), I responded to what I thought was a deflection in the responses to Noam Scheiber‘s article, The Last Days of Big Law. At the bottom of that post I have a collection of “read these” articles that I keep updating. Here’s
Don’t Attack the Example: Six Points Worthy of Discussion From Noam Scheiber’s Article: The Last Days of Big Law
In response to the attacks on Noam Scheiber‘s article, The Last Days of Big Law, I wrote Let’s not be like the lawyers. In other words: Let’s not attack the example.
For today, I’m going to pull out several points from the article that are worthy of discussion around the water cooler
Let’s not be like the lawyers (Let’s not attack the example)
I am late to the game blogging on The New Republic article, The Last Days of Big Law. To quote my friend Diane Hamlin:
Let’s not be like the lawyers. Let’s not attack the example.
I would caution us here to not dismiss the premise of the article, there is big change in the legal industry, by attacking the example.
Is Noam Scheiber‘s article perfect? No.
Does he make some great points that we should be discussing? Absolutely.
But why are we wasting time arguing over whether the glass is half-full or half-empty when there is a hole in the cup?
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