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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... read more +

The Maroons & The Grays: The Next Chapter

by | Jul 16, 2023 | 0 Comments

It has been four years since we initially published our series laying out a law firm market segmentation model we called the “Maroons & The Grays,”[1] and four years on is none too soon for an update. No model is, or should be, static, and as we have worked with...

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July 4th

by | Jul 3, 2023 | 0 Comments

America! America! God mend thine every flaw, confirm they soul in self-control, thy liberty in law. O Beautiful for Spacious Skies, Materna,  composed by Katharine Lee Bates, 1893 (second verse, third and fourth stanzas)

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Our Brave New Lateral World

by | Jun 20, 2023 | 2 Comments

Something that feels structurally different seems to have developed in the lateral market. The ambition of this essay is to describe what we think it is, why it has developed, and what it portends for the future of BigLaw.  Plus, with any luck, some ideas or at least...

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Is Litigation in Long-Run Secular Decline?

by | May 23, 2023 | 3 Comments

The first truly evil character to appear in Scripture is of course the Snake in the Garden of Good and Evil. Not a nice guy, not someone you'd want to emulate, not a role model:  The Snake of all Snakes at the coulda-been Eternal Garden Party, harbinger of bad news...

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