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Perspective

Jul. 13, 2009

Firm Change Must Come From Leaders

Consultants can only sell the advice that clients are willing to buy, writes Edwin B. Reeser.

By Edwin B. Reeser

The profession at present overflows with dissatisfaction regarding the value in results delivered for the monetary cost paid for legal services (the client side) and value received for the human cost paid to commit one's life to providing legal services (the lawyer and staff side). The tension for both was vibrating with negative energy during a period of unprecedented growth in numbers of jobs and monetary returns for being a lawye...

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