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Large Firms

Sep. 7, 2012

Law firm failures: drilling for questions, and answers that lead to better questions

The speed with which many large law firm failures appear to take place has been noted in several recent large law firm collapses, but we are learning that law firm failures actually don't happen all that quickly. By Edwin Reeser


By Edwin Reeser


The breathtaking speed with which many large law firm failures appear to take place has been noted in several recent large law firm collapses. But we are learning that law firm failures actually don't happen all that quickly, are a long time in the making, and not all of the partners are that surprised. So what enables and promotes some of the rust that corrodes law firm structures to apparent sudden collapse? We will ask a few questions, and ...

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