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Is the American Legal Profession a Guild?
This is one in our occasional series of excerpts from my yet-to-be-published new book, treating, among other things, the historic roots of our profession tracing back to medieval guilds. I hope you enjoy, and, more importantly, that you provide any feedback,... read more +Recruiting Summer Associates: Model Your Campaign After “The Apprentice”?
What's your model for hiring summer associates? Are you satisfied with it? If not, how about trying this instead: Model a challenge for them on the hit reality TV show "The Apprentice;" Schedule call-backs on the spot; Send "very...
The Long-Running Soap Opera Must End
"From pace-setter to basket case in the United States?" Shall we all guess what firm got stuck with that donkey-tail over at law.com? Alas, of course, it was Clifford-Chance. The questions du jour are (1) what went wrong? (not so we can...
The JD/MBA: Worth It? To You? To Your Firm?
The Indiana Unversity School of Law—Bloomington is in the process of streamlining its JD/MBA program with the Kelley School of Business. The overall goal is to encourage more students—whether they "start" on the law-school side or the...
Moore’s Law vs. Flesh & Blood
Most of the ink on the topic of outsourcing by law firms has been understandably devoted to back-office functions such as HR and tech support desks. I view the trend to house these functions elsewhere than in, say, midtown Manhattan, as eminently sensible and...
Don’t Take My Lockstep Away
I have often written on the tension between lockstep compensation and eat-what-you-kill, and I'm coming to the view that a nuanced, subjective, and openly ad hoc approach is probably the best, all things considered. Each of the polar end-points on that spectrum...
