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Big Law And Risk Management: Case Studies Of Litigation, Deals, And Diversity, Anthony V. Alfieri
Big Law And Risk Management: Case Studies Of Litigation, Deals, And Diversity, Anthony V. Alfieri
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Three Generations Of U.S. Lawyers: Generalists, Specialists, Project Managers, William D. Henderson
Three Generations Of U.S. Lawyers: Generalists, Specialists, Project Managers, William D. Henderson
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A simple framework for understanding the U.S. legal profession is a gradual progression through three generations of lawyers: the generalist, the specialist, and the project manager. The transition from one generation to the next is driven by the familiar story of supply and demand. The generalist era (colonial period to the end of World War II) gave way to the specialist era (post-War to early 2000s) because of a shortage of sophisticated business lawyers capable of serving the needs of large, growing, and increasingly regulated industrial and financial clients. Over a period of several decades, leading local practitioners with business …