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by | December 4, 2009 | About the Site, Articles

Nearly 2,000 of you already subscribe to our monthly e-newsletter, which we’ve been publishing for over 3-1/2 years, since the spring of 2006. 

To those of you who do subscribe, what follows will be repetitive since you’ve already seen it in this month’s issue of the newsletter, which arrived in your inboxes earlier today. 

But for those of you who haven’t yet subscribed, we wanted to offer you the opportunity.  Please read on.

We’ve been alerting you for some time to the fact that the newsletter would move to a paid model, and the day has arrived.

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Here’s an overview of what’s in this month’s newsletter:

What’s On Your Minds
  • What people are talking about
Recap of Key Articles
    Covering why laterals’ motivation for moving may be different now than before the Great Reset

  • What laterals ought to know about firms before joining (think “Offering Memorandum”)
  • A discussion of Reed Smith’s (related?) decisions to dial back 1st year associate salaries and hourly requirements and to require its non-equity partners to pony up a capital contribution
  • The first and second installments in our “Law Firm Business Models” survey, covering (a) Regional Firms; and (b)  Boutiques.
The Newsletter-Only Article
  • An extended discussion of differences of opinion about the future of alternative fees, based on a soon-to-be published book surveying the AmLaw 100.  Can you say “people disagree”?
Quotes of the Month
  • Milton Friedman
Profile of an Individual
  • The unfairly obscure British economist A. C. Pigou, who analyzed when government intervention in markets to correct “externalities” was and was not justified.

 

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Please let me know if you have any comments, observations, or questions.

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