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December 2009
From Generalization to Specialization and Back Again
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If you stay with it long enough, a practice that goes out of fashion will often come back around again. Those of us of a certain age remember when the first year or more at a big law firm was spent "rotating" around departments to get a good feel for the full range of legal practice. …
Making it Personal
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Following up on our November 1 entry "The Importance of Glue" is an article by Patricia Gillette, a partner at Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, published December 9 in The American Lawyer, and reproduced below in its entirety.
"The Message That Will Seal Law Firms’ Doom: ‘It’s Nothing Personal’
It’s not personal.
This is the current mantra…
Muir to Advise in Patrick McKenna’s ENABLE Program
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Muir has been selected by Patrick McKenna (co-author of First Among Equals and Herding Cats) as one of a select group of law firm consultants available to advise law firm leaders under McKenna’s ENABLE program–Executive Network of Advisory Boards for Leadership Excellence, which McKenna describes below.
"Now, more than ever, being a Firm Chair…