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How High the Sky?

We’re in the thick of BigLaw’s year-end earnings season, where firms left and right are reporting their FY2024 financial results.  The numbers of greatest interest from a macro-industry perspective–setting aside the perennial gossip-intensive zero... read more +

“We’re Insanely Busy!”

by | Jun 8, 2021 | 1 Comment

If we've heard that once over the last couple of months..... It's getting to the point where we wonder if those words threaten to become the lyrics of the Great Summer of 2021 Breakout Pop Hit Single.  Actually, we leave that to the Great Clive Davis and the demigods...

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The US is a Net (Im/Ex?)Porter of Law?

by | May 24, 2021 | 0 Comments

For the armchair economists in the crowd, the geopolitically curious, or faithful leaders of law firms wondering whether they should plant a, or more, flags abroad, how would you instinctively answer that question?  Does the US sell more legal services abroad than it...

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Legal Services “Intensity” Around the Globe

by | May 12, 2021 | 4 Comments

We find ourselves from time to time wondering about many things: Will Moore's Law ever hit a wall? When will the last print edition of The New York Times be published? Could Lord General Cornwallis have escaped the French/American pincer movement at Yorktown and gone...

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