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“All of this looks remarkable to those of us agitating from the outside — we’re used to hearing the radicals in the streets, not inside the castle grounds. But as Paul Lippe has pointed out elsewhere, what’s most remarkable about this revolution is that no one’s manning the battlements or guarding the portcullis. No one’s stepping up publicly to defend the status quo of hourly billing and compensation, up-or-out partnership tracks, overworked and underchallenged associates, and so on. That’s because there really isn’t any good defence for them; they’re irrational. What they have been, up until now, is incredibly profitable for law firms. But as their profitability wanes, so does any illusion that they can be justified.“
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Chaos in the castle

Change is coming to the legal industry, that is for sure.  It may be revolutionary to big law firms built on leveraged-associate models.  To those of us quietly working to provide valuable, cost-effective help to our clients, though, it’s just business as usual.

-Jay

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