In a provocative new white paper, consultants Bruce MacEwen and Janet Stanton imagined the yearnings of “any large random number” of out-of-town managing partners trying to break into the lucrative New York law firm market:

“What we really need is a top drawer, high-end corporate and litigation practice in New York,” those too-numerous-to-count lawyers have concluded, according to MacEwen and Stanton, who work at Adam Smith Esq. in New York.