Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

The following is a guest post from our long-time friend and astute observer of Law Land, Alastair Morrison.   –Bruce & Janet Alastair Morrison, Legal Consultant Alastair Morrison is a London-based legal consultant with extensive experience in law firm... read more +

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

The following is a guest post from our long-time friend and astute observer of Law Land, Alastair Morrison.   --Bruce & Janet Alastair Morrison, Legal Consultant Alastair Morrison is a London-based legal consultant with extensive experience in law firm strategy...

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Ask Not for Whom GenAI Tolls

Law Land in general, and BigLaw in particular, has a firmly established and proud custom of not being the first.  To almost anything.  I say this based on personal experience, because the almost invariable response to a novel proposal is, "Who else is doing it?"  And...

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Janet on Bloomberg Law re the Non-Equity Tier

Recently Janet was invited to participate in a Bloomberg Law podcast on the topic of Ropes & Gray remaining a single-tier partnership despite the industry's overwhelming movement towards the two-tier (equity and non-equity) partnership model.  Her fellow panelist...

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The Diabolical Collective Action Problem

Back in March we first wrote about the theretofore-inconceivable systematic attack on BigLaw by our current Administration in Washington, DC.  The "program of revenge," as we described it, calculatedly targeted law firms representing clients and interests that the...

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Why Are So Many Superstar Litigators Jumping Ship?

In the most recent of what's beginning to feel like a parade of star litigators jumping ship from BigLaw, comes word that Karen Dunn has left Paul Weiss to join a startup litigation boutique; in the first few months of its existence it's already past two dozen lawyers...

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