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Law Firm Dynamics: Don’T Hate The Player, Hate The Game, Tom Kimbrough
Law Firm Dynamics: Don’T Hate The Player, Hate The Game, Tom Kimbrough
SMU Law Review Forum
This paper concerns the business of law, a subject ignored by legal academia and sugarcoated by the organized bar. If law professors express little or no interest in this subject, their students most certainly do. Indeed, I have found that students are desperately hungry for information on the day-to-day realities of working in a law firm. Students are especially keen to learn about possible paths for career advancement within firms, across them, or across the organizations served by the firms.
Paths for career advancement do exist, but they are not easy to find or pursue. Law firms are hardly going …