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bigger marketing budgets than networks. Perhaps legal networks remain tarnished because they
originated as clubs or even franchises. However, in the light of day, it is now possible to argue that
many of the elite law firms are themselves no more than networks.
The world is coming full circle.1
1 Chris Johnson, Vereins: The New Structure for Global Firms, AM. LAWYER (March 7, 2013); see also Ed Shanahan, The Am Law 100: Grand
Illusion, THE AM LAW DAILY (May 2, 2011), available at http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2011/05/grandillusion.html.
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originated as clubs or even franchises. However, in the light of day, it is now possible to argue that
many of the elite law firms are themselves no more than networks.
The world is coming full circle.1
1 Chris Johnson, Vereins: The New Structure for Global Firms, AM. LAWYER (March 7, 2013); see also Ed Shanahan, The Am Law 100: Grand
Illusion, THE AM LAW DAILY (May 2, 2011), available at http://amlawdaily.typepad.com/amlawdaily/2011/05/grandillusion.html.
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