Dan and Jane return after a very long hiatus. Inspired by Marlene’s terrific post and the impassioned discussion that it began amongst friends.
Jane: Dan! I haven’t seen you forever. How have you been?!
Dan: I’m sorry. Do I know you?
Jane: It’s me, Jane. We used to do 3 Geeks Point/Counter-point posts
Being chastised for using the apparently un-Texan term “nincompoop” I have switched to the more general “Ninnies” in an attempt to keep this dialog above board. So now we can dive into my attack of Susan’s response, to Ryan’s ramblings on Susan’s reply to Jordan’s retort to my critique of Jordan’s original
from Susan Hackett‘s comment on yesterday’s post.
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I was chatting yesterday with a great guy who’s been in-house as a GC for most of his professional life, and has recently affiliated with a law firm. He loves this firm and he loves the people he works with, but
Jordan and I will need to add Susan Hackett to our traveling road show as she has now entered the fray. Below Susan responds to Jordan’s critique of my critique of his original post. (Just writing that makes me kind of dizzy).
See if you can follow the bouncing ball in this interesting debate.
Thanks to Susan for adding to
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Jordan Furlong and I need to take our show on the road. In our usual “Dan & Jane” fashion, we inadvertently tackled another topic. My original post threw down the gauntlet and Jordan, in his always well-stated fashion, answered the call. Below is his response – with a promise of more to come.
Thanks Jordan!
Update 11-4-13: Jordan
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Jane: Dan, I’ve been going over some of the statistics from the Simkovic/McIntyre study, and have to say that most law students will be far better off by attending law school than they would by not obtaining the degree.
Dan: Jane, I see you’ve been playing music with your old
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Dan: One of our partner’s sons took the bar exam recently. Reminded me of my turn at that challenge. Jane, it also reminded me to shove in your face that I scored the highest on the bar exam that year. How well did you score?
Jane: As I recall the bar exam
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Dan: My Law Firm Right-Sizing idea received so much positive feedback, it encouraged me to think even deeper on the subject.
Jane: “Deeper” as in all the way to the bottom of the kiddie pool?
Dan: “Kiddie Pool” as in where your limited thinking keeps you Jane? So here’s my next great
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Dan: Recent reports of BigLaw staff firings got me thinking.
Jane: I hope you weren’t driving at the time.
Dan: Anyways … I came up with a brilliant idea for how law firms can reduce their cost structures. Everyone is always bitching (your specialty Jane) about how the cost structure of large
