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Law Practice

Mar. 8, 2011

At Law Firms, a New, Old Thing: Legal Project Management

Project management is all the rage in law firms. But will attorneys really let someone else manage their major matters?


By Erica E. Phillips


Daily Journal Staff Writer


George G. Gordon, chairman of the antitrust practice at Dechert LLP, was three years into a multidefendant class-action case when he and his client, Medela Inc. President Carr Lane Quackenbush, got into another awkward conversation about rates.


"Year over year, we take a rate increase," Gordon said. "We got to the point where we were trying to manage the issue by simply just discou...

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