wo Years Ago I Boldly proclaimed that there was a “new paradigm”for law firms [The American Lawyer, "Radical Redesign," July 2000]. No longer would Wall Street firms dominate the profession and set the standards. Instead, I argued, Silicon Valley firms were redefining the law firm model, supplanting their New York rivals as the most powerful influences.
In the same issue, my colleague Alison Frankel countered that the center of the legal universe wouldn’t budge from Manhattan: “Not a chance,” she wrote. “No way. Never. Or, as we say in New York, fuhgeddaboudit.”
