And, yes, successful lawyers will become competent entrepreneurs, capable of running a business, managing multidisciplinary projects and developing new work. 14 Generational cultures. 15 Changing models for dispute resolution. Used to be a lawyer graduated from law school, ran the gauntlet of interviews and then waltzed across the threshold of the firm that would shape the rest of her or his life. A career marriage.
Lawyers move as freely as professional athletes.
Many of your partners at this very minute are listening for the next telephone message that ups their personal ante in dollars and respect. 17 Lawyers as businesspeople rather than members of the bar. It's a subtle but enormous difference. What was once a calling is becoming a highly specialized business. An exploding legal population.