The traditional American corporate law firm, long an oasis of organizational stability, in
recent years has been the subject of dramatic change. The manner in which firms divide …

1582 Virginia Law Review [Vol. 84: 1581 of Lawyers: The Transformation of the Big Law
Firm, that the core institutional characteristic of large law firms is the" promotion-topartner …

Law firms are under siege. The traditional view of the law firm as a stable institution with an
assured future is now challenged by an awareness that even the largest and most …

During the past generation the manner in which law is practiced in the United States has
changed dramatically in more than one way. Within the last fifteen years alone, for example …

OUR goal is to address several issues on the economics of the firm. In particular, we are
interested in the survival value of ownership rules in competitive markets for complex …

A striking development in the legal profession over the last decade has been the rapid
growth in both importance and size of in-house, or corporate, counsel. The traditional house …

Tournament of Lawyers traces in detail the rise of one hundred of the nation's top firms in
order to diagnose the health of the business of American law. Galanter and Palay …

Ozell, 1950)(1605). The Spanish text reads: Mire vuestra merced--respondi6 Sancho-quc
aquellos que allf se parecen no son gigantes, sino molinos de viento....-Imiguel DE …

This quotation on lawyers selling their souls evokes the memory of an old friend. After a full
day of depositions in New York City, I looked forward to seeing Joan, a rising star at a …

The times they are a changin'. Vanguard firms of the 1980s take-over boom have
announced associate layoffs and salary freezes because business is down. Bankruptcy and …