A01=Marc Galanter
A01=Thomas Palay
Author_Marc Galanter
Author_Thomas Palay
Category=KN
Category=LNAA
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Product details
- ISBN 9780226278773
- Weight: 482g
- Dimensions: 16 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 09 Apr 1991
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Tournament of Lawyers traces in detail the rise of one hundred of the nation's top firms in order to diagnose the health of the business of American law. Galanter and Palay demonstrate that much of the large firm's organizational success stems from its ability to blend the talents of experienced partners with those of energetic junior lawyers driven by a powerful incentive--the race to win "the promotion-to-partner tournament." This calmly reasoned study reveals, however, that the very causes of the spiraling growth of the large law firm may lead to its undoing. "Galanter and Palay pose questions and offer some answers which are certain to change the way big firm practice is regarded. To describe their work as challenging is something of an understatement: they at times delight, stimulate, frustrate and even depress the reader, but they never disappoint. Tournament of Lawyers is essential to the understanding of the business of the big law firms."--Jean and Colin Fergus, New York Law Journal
