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Law Practice

Aug. 21, 2001

Trust Builders

A professional service firm without trust as a core value will corrode. Firm dissolutions as a result of failed relations between partners speckle the legal industry's history.

By Charles S. Birenbaum
        
        In 1998 David Maister wrote an article entitled "A Matter of Trust." The article examined the power that trust brings to relationships with clients and associates, and among partners. Although it may seem self-evident, a professional service firm without trust as a core value will corrode. Firm dissolutions as a result of failed relation...

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