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SmallLaw: The Un-Law Firm: Are You Un or Out?

By Mazyar Hedayat

As any observer of our profession can tell you, the model for aspiring law firms is the pyramid. Rainmakers push work down to the base ? the associates, paralegals, and staff. In the end everyone but rainmakers are fungible. Unless crippled by dissention or debilitated by crisis, firms will continue growing their base indefinitely. You might think this obvious bloat would hurt the profession, but you'd be wrong. Law firms are never punished where it counts (in the wallet) for being over-staffed. Having scores of people running around makes clients feel secure, law schools swoon, and embeds the pattern so deep in our collective consciousness that we cannot conceive of an alternative. Nonetheless, the result of all this inefficiency is ideological stagnation...continue to full post

Full post as published by TechnoLawyer Blog on September 23, 2008 (boomark / email).