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The 'Out of Towners'

Public relations or not. If you are a reader of The New York Times, you may have noticed that when journalists quote an attorney for a particular piece, it seems that the quote comes from an expert in a firm outside of New York. What's going on? I will admit that for many years New York law firms shied away from being quoted at all, feeling perhaps that they were above it all and that their clients, for the most part high profile Fortune 500 corporations and large banking institutions would scowl at their outside counsel garnering attention. Now it seems that these firms have been relegated to the occasional quote while the regional/national firms have embraced the media and are truly "out there.

41 minute read April 29, 2005 at 10:37 AM
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Elizabeth Anne "betiayn" Tursi
The 'Out of Towners'

Let me first start by saying that this article is being written by a life-long New Yorker from the standpoint of a New Yorker and by a person who has spent the better part of her life in the “law biz.”

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