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Calling all savvy blawggers: What will the legal profession look like in ten years?
Bruce MacEwen has lobbed his latest "savvy blawger" question out to a panel of pundits, and it's a potential doozy:
"What will the industry structure of the (U.S.-based) legal profession look like ten years hence? Not to be oblique about it, but I'm seeking the collective wisdom of the Savvy Blawgers on whether the much-bruited consolidation of the AmLaw 200 is for real, in their opinion, or whether it will run up against inevitable ceilings such as a fatal overload of "conflicts" or the inherent difficulty of managing a complex and far-flung enterprise. With corollary questions such as, are clients or firms driving it, and if firms, what are they hoping to achieve? Jargon note: I'm using "industry structure" in the economic sense, meaning what is the makeup, distribution, composition, and market share of the industry players? The "industrial structure" of the long-haul passenger jet market is simple: Airbus and Boeing, each at 50% of recent deliveries. By contrast, the industrial structure of the artisanal cheese-making industry is completely atomized."
MacEwen says reader comments are also welcome -- here.
Posted by Product Team on May 18, 2005 at 03:13 PM | Permalink
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