"Inimitable"
is grossly over-used, but I’m at a loss for words after reading
Aric Press’s latest column
introducing the current issue of The American Lawyer and recognizing
again what an iconoclastic thinker he is. (Disclosure: Aric,
editor-in-chief of TAL, is also a friend.)
The topic is what must be going through the mind of the managing partner
of a UK firm attempting to break into the US—and more specifically,
New York—market, an exercise which has been "notable for its struggles,"
as Aric puts it. Aric considers and discards two tried and true
(albeit feckless) strategies: Ramp up your laterals
in the corporate/deal lawyer world, or else do the same in the litigation/dispute
world.
Aric has a better idea, and anticipates that it will be received as
"drivel:" Look to Texas.
