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At the Intersection: Dispatch to Managing Partners

By Pamela Woldow
May 02, 2014

For several years now, all us bloggers and pundits have been pushing the Chicken Little button and trying to get your attention. We all have been saying pretty much the same thing: Law firm practice and economics are morphing into a “New Normal,” major paradigm shifts impend, it's change or die time, yadayadaya. Yes, we do get pushback from law firm leaders, to the tune of, “as far as my firm is concerned, you're all peddling alarmist tripe because for us and our clients, it's pretty much business as usual. And oh, yes, we had quite a nice 2013, thank you.” So are the predicted trends really trending?

Where do trends start ' and where do they take hold? Where the stakes are highest. That means we can look to the largest law firms and the pushiest clients to see the signals of where we're all headed. Things trickle down from there to smaller firms ' and friends, they are trickling.

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