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Perspective

Nov. 1, 2014

Free agency and lateral partner moves

Lateral partner moves in the legal industry, especially the ones involving prestige practices, have often been compared to the free agency feature in professional sports. By Edwin B. Reeser


By Edwin B. Reeser


Lateral partner moves in the legal industry, especially the ones involving prestige practices, have often been compared to the free agency feature in professional sports. Many of us who wear suits and ties to work and spend endless hours behind a desk like to think of ourselves in the more fanciful and heroic perspective of star athlete than we do the image of law practice painted by Herman Melville in his 1853 short story "Bartleby, the S...

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