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Shout Out to Kirkland
This column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. We generally eschew commenting on daily comings-and-goings in Law Land. We make an exception here, because this is actually huge news. I’m speaking about Kirkland’s decision to stop disclosing financial info... read more +DLA Piper/Harvard Business School: Class Act #2
DLA Piper [Rudnick Gray Cary?—I'm quite confident they shortened the name, but their website doesn't reflect it] is partnering with Harvard Business School to launch what is to my knowledge the second-of-its-kind lawyer "executive education"...
Outsourcing: Win Some, Lose Some
My article at Law Technology News on Milbank's outsourcing their wordprocessing to Chennai, India, is now up. How, you might well ask, could control-freak lawyers possibly cope with the news that their documents would not be processed under their noses but...
Are “MegaFirms” Going to Self-Destruct?
"More Lawyers Flee Megafirms" is the intriguing headline from The National Law Journal, which sounds like an invitation to an article exploring the commonly-received-wisdom that the AmLaw 200 are consolidating--and debunking it. Guess again. The...
Why New York, London, & Hong Kong Will Endure
Janet & I had the delightful experience of being able to meet Ernie Svenson, creator of the early-adopter blog "Ernie the Attorney," for drinks last night in New York—he was here for the weekend to see, among other things, the new MOMA (highly recommended)....
Happy Memorial Day Weekend
Happy Memorial Day Weekend to one and all. Although I'm not a fan of the new World War II Memorial in Washington (my favorite architecture critic described it as "inspired by Albert Speer"), the truths and liberties it stands for must be...