If you believe the structural environment for Big Law hasn’t fundamentally changed since 2008, the series I’m inaugurating today is not for you. (I would also have to ask, from a mystified perspective and in the kindest of ways, if you’re paying attention?)

Call it the Great Recession, the Great Reset (my favourite), or whatever, the world palpably shook in September 2008 and the repercussions are still very much with us.