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David Lat

Profits vs. Partners

“There is a real generation gap between those around 35 and those around 45,” a 33-year-old partner at a major national law firm said recently. “Older people still have this weird idea that this is a partnership and we’re in professional services, yakkety yak and blah blah blah. I don’t see how they think that Read More

Way Better Than Briefs: Legal Minds Turn to Blogs

Picture a character like Entourage’s Ari Gold or Wall Street’s Gordon Gekko. He’s high-powered, hard-driving, arrogant, misanthropic and politically incorrect. He has a knack for turning out bitter bon mots that simultaneously frighten and amuse. Now imagine him as the hiring partner at one of the nation’s top law firms, venting his spleen on the Read More

Way Better Than Briefs: Legal Minds Turn to Blogs

Picture a character like Entourage’s Ari Gold or Wall Street’s Gordon Gekko. He’s high-powered, hard-driving, arrogant, misanthropic and politically incorrect. He has a knack for turning out bitter bon mots that simultaneously frighten and amuse. Now imagine him as the hiring partner at one of the nation’s top law firms, venting his spleen on the Read More