Tournament of Lawyers The Transformation of the Big Law Firm

Name: Tournament of Lawyers The Transformation of the Big Law Firm
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ISBN: 9780226278780

ISBN-10: 0226278786

ISBN-13: 9780226278780

Edition: 1993

Authors: Marc Galanter, Thomas Palay

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Tournament of Lawyers traces in detail the rise of one hundred of the nation's top firms in order to diagnose the health of the business of American law. Galanter and Palay demonstrate that much of the large firm's organizational success stems from its ability to blend the talents of experienced partners with those of energetic junior lawyers driven by a powerful incentive—the race to win "the promotion-to-partner tournament." This calmly reasoned study reveals, however, that the very causes of the spiraling growth of the large law firm may lead to its undoing. "Galanter and Palay pose questions and offer some answers which are certain to change the way big firm practice is regarded. To…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 1/15/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 206
Size: 7.44" wide x 8.94" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.704
Language: English



Preface



Introduction



The Emergence of the Big Firm



Circa 1960: The Golden Age of the Big Law Firm



The Transformation The Changing Environment of the Big Firm The Transformation of the Big Firm The ""New Information Order"" of the Law



Explaining Big-Firm Growth and Change: The Promotion-to-Partner Tournament


The Pattern of Growth Toward


A Theory of Exponential Growth Some Alternative Theories of the Kink in Post-1970 Growth


Confronting the Constraints on Exponential Growth



Metamorphoses? A B