Lawyers like
to lament the passing of their fabled past, when partners knew each
other on sight, firms contented themselves to operating in one ZIP
code and junior associates were not a menacing anonymous horde
threatening to take out their frustrations via the blogosphere. As
it happens, in the big-firm world those days aren't gone, they've
just moved to the Am Law Second Hundred ranks, where firms are
prosperous and growing steadily but retain the possibility of
old-fashioned cohesion.
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