Tournament of Lawyers

The Transformation of the Big Law Firm

By: Marc Galanter, Thomas Palay

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Hardcover | 9 April 1991 | Edition Number 1

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"Tournament of Lawyers" traces in detail the rise of one hundred of the nation's top firms in order to diagnose the health of the business of American law. Galanter and Palay demonstrate that much of the large firm's organizational success stems from its ability to blend the talents of experienced partners with those of energetic junior lawyers driven by a powerful incentive--the race to win "the promotion-to-partner tournament." This calmly reasoned study reveals, however, that the very causes of the spiraling growth of the large law firm may lead to its undoing.
"Galanter and Palay pose questions and offer some answers which are certain to change the way big firm practice is regarded. To describe their work as challenging is something of an understatement: they at times delight, stimulate, frustrate and even depress the reader, but they never disappoint. "Tournament of Lawyers" is essential to the understanding of the business of the big law firms."--Jean and Colin Fergus, "New York Law Journal"

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Preface
Introduction
The Emergence of the Big Firm
Circa 1960: The Golden Age of the Big Law Firm
The Transformation The Changing Environment of the Big Firm The Transformation of the Big Firm The ""New Information Order"" of the Law
Explaining Big-Firm Growth and Change: The Promotion-to-Partner Tournament
The Pattern of Growth Toward
A Theory of Exponential Growth Some Alternative Theories of the Kink in Post-1970 Growth
Confronting the Constraints on Exponential Growth
Metamorphoses? A B
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