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Pro Bono: Just Do It
Ten do-good role models for Second Hundred firms.
Don't Look Back
A disruptive force enters the world of large law firms.
A Partner Protection Plan
Another Dewey lesson: as firms become more like corporations, the partner-shareholders may need the protections offered by an outside director or ombudsman. Plus, a second opinion on the subject.
Erase The Am Law 100?
Twenty-five years into the publication of The Am Law 100, what have we to show for the effort?
Happily Ever After
Turns out big-firm partners can find professional fulfillment, though perhaps not where you think.
Time for Equal Justice
On the front lines with ALM’s Equal Justice Fellows.
The Whole World Is Hiring
The anxiety over the slowdown in new matters that began last summer continues at the nation's big law firms. But the work has only slowed, it hasn't stopped.
The Purpose-Driven Firm
Long ago, in an otherwise forgotten law school class, I listened as the distinguished professor declared, with uncharacteristic emotion, "The purpose of a corporation is to make money." Across the room, a young woman raised her hand and suggested that the professor might not be correct.
The Young Lions
In mid-October The American Lawyer held its first conference for new partners, big-firm lawyers promoted since 2008. It was a bracing and satisfying experience to hear from a mostly optimistic group that also expressed a healthy and appropriate dose of worry.
