“Both types of law firms serve the public. The fee structure of a large law firm makes those firms unreachable for most individual clients; these folks need smalls. A large company with millions of dollars on the line looks for a brand name, the vetting of associates and partners, and the ability to quickly put together a team of lawyers to tackle major litigation or a huge transaction. It is not an accident that there are thousands of small firms and that there are big firms with over a thousand lawyers.”
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Eric Cooperstein writing on Lawyerist.
This takes my back to my favorite law school class: Law Firm as a Business Organization. The class was based around this same idea: that the most fundamental split among lawyers was those who have people as clients and those who have organizations as clients.
