Head over to the Bloomberg BNA Business of Law blog for an interesting piece on how the law business has changed over the last few decades:
“When Jami McKeon started practicing law for Morgan Lewis & Bockius in 1981, things were a lot different. Fresh out of Villanova University School of Law, the litigator worked out of the Philadelphia firm’s local office and had no problem landing work on a number of cases for clients, from United Gas Improvement Corporation to PNC Bank. With 125 lawyers working out of its headquarters, Morgan Lewis was principally known as a labor and employment law firm for Pennsylvania area clients — an identity that has become a distant memory, with its largest office now in Washington, D.C., at 350 lawyers, and 1,900 lawyers working around the globe…”
Read: How the Law Business Has Changed Since 1981 at Bloomberg BNA Business of Law