The issue is examined in Glass Half Full: The Decline and Rebirth of the Legal Profession, a book written by Tennessee University law professor Benjamin Barton. He writes that clients ’have continued to pay more for true “bet-the-company” transactional and litigation work. This is consistent with the winner-take-all economy: the most profitable firms and most in-demand lawyers get richer doing the truly specialised work and everyone else falls backward toward the pack.’
GC Futures Summit
The professor is one of the speakers at the GC Futures Summit on 9 November in London.
Source: Bench & Bar of Minnesota
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