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MichaelPanfilThirdPaper 3 - 23 Aug 2009 - Main.EbenMoglen
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| | | Providing a forum for personal law firm accounts is another way to accomplish the same goal. Bringing in associates to talk about their lives – the type of work they do on a day-to-day basis, the hours they practice, and the pro bono they are involved in, will help in separating reality from fiction. Rather than reading vault guide praise and bias, BBLP can help to shed light on the reality of the situation – that a degree is exchanged for a high paying factory-esque job in a line. Spreading this type of awareness creates, an impact at the most important level – the soon to be firm employees. If the reality of the option is exposed, and students demand a change (and, with this new knowledge, know what change we seek), law firms will have to change their model – the alternative will be insolvency. | |
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- I think this is an interesting essay, but I'm not sure exactly what its purpose is. Are you speculating about the future of this student group? Are you asking whether law firms can be restructured by pressure from prospective associates? Are you asking how to crowd source data more useful to prospective law firm juniors than the existing placement materials? Are you inquiring whether you should expend energy on student agitation over law firm working conditions in view of the fact that you don't want to work in a large law firm? Each of those questions is suggested or raised by the draft, each (with perhaps the exception of the last) might require 1,000 words to discuss fully, and all cannot be addressed within the scope of a coherent essay. I think the route to improvement is the clear definition of thesis and a resulting focused outline.
- If you are considering focusing on the proposition that law firms can be restructured by pressure from prospective associates, let me just point out the relevance of what you don't say, that this is the worst job market for prospective large-firm associates in three generations. The full breadth of the reorganization of the market in corporate and financial legal services has not been glimpsed yet. The firms are restructuring, and the partners who own them are rapidly trying to adjust to an extremely complex and primarily unfavorable situation. Most of their best choices involve radically reducing the size of their firms at the lower end, because leverage now works against them. Prospective employees seeking to bargain with them for more autonomy or a larger proportion of revenue-consuming to revenue-producing work will not have much clout. They will get heard precisely to the extent that they misunderstand the situation thoroughly enough to assist the partners in rebuilding their profits at the associates' expense, and not otherwise.
- If you are considering writing about the future of the student group, you might want to ask what course of existence you anticipate for it if the employment picture at large leveraged firms continues to deteriorate.
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