Could the U.S. News law firm rankings, with their focus on assessments of lawyer quality rather than on bottom-line profits, be Big Law's latest Black Swan -- a transformative, history-shaping event? No, according to Steven Harper, an adjunct professor at Northwestern University.
September 20, 2010 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Could the U.S. News & World Report law firm rankings be Big Law’s latest Black Swan?
The title of Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s bestseller comes from the discovery of what everyone knew didn’t exist. In the Old World, universally reported human experience pointed unambiguously to a single conclusion: All swans were white. Then came the discovery of Australia and its Black Swans.
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