What will next year look like at the biggest law firms in the land? For the first time since The American Lawyer began surveying law firm leaders in 2003, their answer is: We’re not sure.
“Anybody who is running a law firm who pretends to be able to predict with certainty what the firm is going to be doing in the next year and how it’s going to fare is dreaming,” says DLA Piper joint CEO Francis Burch, Jr., summing up the general feeling of his counterparts in The Am Law 200. Of the more than one dozen managing partners interviewed about their responses to our survey, all expressed the same sentiment: The future is up for grabs.
