The Handbook of Law Firm Mismanagement for the 21st CenturyAmerica’s expert on law firm mismanagement is back with a whole new array of humorous committee meetings, memos, speeches, and consultants’ reports that present lawyers acting not like sharks, but rather floundering in a sea of dilemmas. The lawyers at the fictitious firm Fairweather, Winters & Sommers consider the advantages of merging and going virtual, bicker over a firm web site, and in front of a morning talk-show audience, try to understand economics, and scramble to figure out what to do when a big corporate client gets caught being unusually unethical. A sports-mogul client argues for drafting law-school graduates as if they were athletes, and a look into the future finds lawyers trolling outer space for new business. As ever, the firm’s founder, Stanley Fairweather, gets the last, wise word. Imagination and humor drive this law firm send-up, which turns a dull topic into hilarious farce and entertains lawyers while showing them the error of their ways. |
Contents
Introduction Survival of the Unfittest | 9 |
Now Pronounce You | 15 |
Nobodys Business | 25 |
See No Evil Hear No Evil Speak No Evil | 34 |
Foreign Capital | 44 |
Economically Speaking | 55 |
The Last Word | 65 |
Sex and Practice | 73 |
Justice Beyond | 123 |
Hello Muddah Hello Fadduh | 129 |
A Game of Chance | 140 |
Gym Dandy | 151 |
Freedom to Associate | 163 |
The Last Word | 174 |
The Partys Over | 180 |
The Whole Lawyer | 190 |
Well Schooled | 82 |
Does Anyone Have a Match? | 92 |
Heaven Can Wait | 102 |
Temporarily Out of Order | 107 |
The Last Word | 116 |
Partnership Assets | 196 |
Onward and Ever Upward | 206 |
Which Solution? | 217 |
End of an Era | 223 |
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