http://www.law21.ca/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.law21.ca%2F2008%2F02%2F15%2Fif-i-had-two-billion-dollars%2F%23comment-&seed_title=If+I+had+two+billion+dollars Dispatches from a legal profession on the brink Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:14:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.law21.ca/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.law21.ca%2F2008%2F02%2F15%2Fif-i-had-two-billion-dollars%2F%23comment-470&seed_title=If+I+had+two+billion+dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-470 Regeneration Tue, 30 Dec 2008 15:12:35 +0000 http://law21.ca/?p=100#comment-470 [...] It was only a few months ago that the mainstream legal media was fawning over firms that generated $2 billion in annual revenue, another chapter in big firms’ history of garnering a disproportionate amount of attention [...] [...] It was only a few months ago that the mainstream legal media was fawning over firms that generated $2 billion in annual revenue, another chapter in big firms’ history of garnering a disproportionate amount of attention [...]

]]> http://www.law21.ca/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.law21.ca%2F2008%2F02%2F15%2Fif-i-had-two-billion-dollars%2F%23comment-33&seed_title=If+I+had+two+billion+dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-33 iamnotalawyer » Blog Archive » Two articles criticizing the culture of large law firms. Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:08:55 +0000 http://law21.ca/?p=100#comment-33 [...] Here’s a blog post in a similar vein from another member of the legal media who I could envy — Jordan Furlong, editor-in-chief of National magazine, which is put out by the Canadian Bar Association. (Despite his nationality, or maybe because his country and mine are so similar, he seems to blog frequently about issues at large U.S. law firms.) In this post and others, he takes law firms to task for focusing more on money and numbers than on client satisfaction, using the $2 billion revenues at Certain New York And LA Firms as a springboard. (Rees Morrison makes the same criticism in passing.) Something he either didn’t mention or didn’t see is that law firms and legal publications both really love lists. They’re profitable for the publications (AFAICT), they allow competitive lawyers to compete, and they’re easier for editors with resources to put together than a set of well-thought-out feature articles. Not that I disagree with Furlong. The law is unique among large business sectors in that the culture doesn’t necessarily prioritize client satisfaction. Clients are where the money is coming from, guys! [...] [...] Here’s a blog post in a similar vein from another member of the legal media who I could envy — Jordan Furlong, editor-in-chief of National magazine, which is put out by the Canadian Bar Association. (Despite his nationality, or maybe because his country and mine are so similar, he seems to blog frequently about issues at large U.S. law firms.) In this post and others, he takes law firms to task for focusing more on money and numbers than on client satisfaction, using the $2 billion revenues at Certain New York And LA Firms as a springboard. (Rees Morrison makes the same criticism in passing.) Something he either didn’t mention or didn’t see is that law firms and legal publications both really love lists. They’re profitable for the publications (AFAICT), they allow competitive lawyers to compete, and they’re easier for editors with resources to put together than a set of well-thought-out feature articles. Not that I disagree with Furlong. The law is unique among large business sectors in that the culture doesn’t necessarily prioritize client satisfaction. Clients are where the money is coming from, guys! [...]

]]> http://www.law21.ca/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Comments+on+Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.law21.ca%2F2008%2F02%2F15%2Fif-i-had-two-billion-dollars%2F%23comment-32&seed_title=If+I+had+two+billion+dollars/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Two articles criticizing the culture of large law firms. « I Am Not a Lawyer Thu, 21 Feb 2008 02:07:41 +0000 http://law21.ca/?p=100#comment-32 [...] Here’s a blog post in a similar vein from another member of the legal media who I could envy — Jordan Furlong, editor-in-chief of National magazine, which is put out by the Canadian Bar Association. (Despite his nationality, or maybe because his country and mine are so similar, he seems to blog frequently about issues at large U.S. law firms.) In this post and others, he takes law firms to task for focusing more on money and numbers than on client satisfaction, using the $2 billion revenues at Certain New York And LA Firms as a springboard. (Rees Morrison makes the same criticism in passing.) Something he either didn’t mention or didn’t see is that law firms and legal publications both really love lists. They’re profitable for the publications (AFAICT), they allow competitive lawyers to compete, and they’re easier for editors with resources to put together than a set of well-thought-out feature articles. Not that I disagree with Furlong. The law is unique among large business sectors in that the culture doesn’t necessarily prioritize client satisfaction. Clients are where the money is coming from, guys! [...] [...] Here’s a blog post in a similar vein from another member of the legal media who I could envy — Jordan Furlong, editor-in-chief of National magazine, which is put out by the Canadian Bar Association. (Despite his nationality, or maybe because his country and mine are so similar, he seems to blog frequently about issues at large U.S. law firms.) In this post and others, he takes law firms to task for focusing more on money and numbers than on client satisfaction, using the $2 billion revenues at Certain New York And LA Firms as a springboard. (Rees Morrison makes the same criticism in passing.) Something he either didn’t mention or didn’t see is that law firms and legal publications both really love lists. They’re profitable for the publications (AFAICT), they allow competitive lawyers to compete, and they’re easier for editors with resources to put together than a set of well-thought-out feature articles. Not that I disagree with Furlong. The law is unique among large business sectors in that the culture doesn’t necessarily prioritize client satisfaction. Clients are where the money is coming from, guys! [...]

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