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The Death of the Law Firm Partnership Vote?

<b><i>With an Eye on Efficiency, Firms Are Ditching Old Methods for a More Corporate Form of Governance</b></i><p>A growing number of firms in the United States and the United Kingdom are eschewing historical partnership norms in favor of more centralized management, and with that comes fewer and fewer partnership votes.

9 minute read April 01, 2018 at 12:07 AM
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Gina Passarella Cipriani
The Death of the Law Firm Partnership Vote?

A group of professionals focused on innovation in law firms were sitting around a table at a recent conference in London when one wryly remarked, “Partnership votes? Who does those anymore?”

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