Lawyers in small- to medium-sized branch offices of major law firms often feel like poor stepchildren of the home office. Even in the most democratically run firms, it’s hard to avoid the perception that headquarters is calling the shots.
From the branch office’s point of view, lawyers in the home office have an exaggerated idea about the firm’s importance in the legal universe and a lack of understanding of the problems that branch office lawyers encounter when trying to build their business in enemy territory.
