This article is by Professor E. Thomas Sullivan and is available at 46 Ind. L. Rev. 145 (2013). Professor Sullivan is President of U. of Vermont and former Chair of the ABA Section of Legal Education.
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For many years, critics have sounded the alarm that the pyramid structure of America's largest private law firms was not a financially sustainable model. This model may well have served the leadership and senior partners of the large law firms for many years, but no student...
