Introducing William
Henderson, Associate Professor of Law at the University of Indiana
Law School/Bloomington. Bill will be an occasional guest blogger
on "Adam Smith, Esq.," as he and I are collaborating on the "Law
Firm Research Project" investigating and analyzing the characteristics
of large, sophisticated (primarily AmLaw 200) firms.
Bill also teaches the course "Law
Firm as a Business Organization," one of only two courses in the country
that address the subject. For reasons obvious to even the most casual
reader of "Adam Smith, Esq.," Bill and I share a great deal of professional
interests, and he has generously invited me to guest-lecture in his course
in early November.
That said, Bill’s interest in the economics of the law firm landscape
are slightly broader than my own: Whereas I focus exclusively on
AmLaw 200-league firms, Bill ranges farther afield to ask provocative
questions about the plaintiff’s bar and solo practitioners. Without
further ado, Bill’s first guest post follows.
