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BigLaw

Money and Meaning in the Modern Law Firm
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BigLaw investigates the evolving culture of large US law firms in the aftermath of the Great Recession. Based on extensive interviews with over 250 partners, Mitt Regan and Lisa H. Rohrer reveal how financial performance pressures have reshaped hiring, promotion, and compensation practices. Despite a growing emphasis on business considerations, partners remain committed to the professional values and non-financial rewards of their legal careers. The authors argue that firms balancing these competing demands cultivate strong cultures better equipped to navigate today's legal market challenges.
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This book is ideal for legal professionals, law firm managers, and anyone interested in the business of law and professional identity within large law firms.

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The Great Recession intensified large law firms’ emphasis on financial performance, leading to claims that lawyers in these firms were now guided by business rather than professional values. Based on interviews with more than 250 partners in large firms, Mitt Regan and Lisa H. Rohrer suggest that the reality is much more complex.

It is true that large firm hiring, promotion, compensation, and termination policies are more influenced by business considerations than ever before and that firms actively recruit profitable partners from other firms to replace those they regard as unproductive. At the same time, law firm partners continue to seek the non-financial rewards of being members of a distinct profession and are sensitive to whether their firms are committed to providing them.

Regan and Rohrer argue that modern firms responding effectively to business demands while credibly affirming the importance of non-financial professional values can create strong cultures that enhance their ability to weather the storms of the modern legal market.

Series: Chicago Series in Law and Society

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Journal of Economic Literature highlights this book's exploration of the tension between business priorities and professional identity among lawyers, based on detailed partner interviews conducted from 2009 to 2016. Law & Social Inquiry praises the authors' nuanced findings that, while business concerns increasingly influence firm policies, partners still seek and value their profession's non-financial rewards.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780226742137

Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 December 2020

Country: United States

Imprint: University of Chicago Press

Illustration: 3 figures

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 399g

Pages: 264

About the Author

Mitt Regan is McDevitt Professor of Jurisprudence and Director of the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession at Georgetown Law Center. Lisa H. Rohrer is a senior fellow at the Center on Ethics and the Legal Profession at Georgetown Law Center and a senior advisor at Fairfax Associates.

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