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THE END OF LEVERAGE? JUST KIDDING.
Since the beginning of the Great Recession, some observers have predicted the demise of the Biglaw leverage model. (http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202428174244) Are they correct? After all,...
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THE LATERAL BUBBLE
Most big law leaders say that they have to keep pushing equity partner profits higher to attract and retain rainmakers. They have repeated that mantra so often and for so long that the rest of the...
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A MYTH THAT MOTIVATES MERGERS
In a recent interview with The American Lawyer, the chairman of Edwards Wildman, Alan Levin, explained the process that led his firm to combine with Locke Lord. It began with a commissioned study that...
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BIG LAW RESISTS THE ASSAULT ON DEMOCRACY
Call them unsung heroes. When attorneys in big law firms get things right, they deserve more attention than they receive. Recently, some of them have won important victories in the profession’s noblest...
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TRUMP AND THE MORGAN LEWIS MESS
On January 11, 2017, Sheri Dillon and Fred Fielding sullied themselves and imperiled the reputation of their firm, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. They shilled for a plainly insufficient plan to deal with...
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