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When will j and g dissolve ???
The real test will be J&G's ability to hang on to big corporate and institutional clients.
A couple of years ago, I worked in house at a company that used J&G as outside counsel on complex tax matters (if only we'd known), and their work product was poor. The senior partner was outstanding, but the associates often were not kept in the loop enough to be particularly helpful.
The documents and letters they drafted were filled with errors, both substantive (misstatements of law and math errors) and grammatical. I wasted a lot of my time on conference calls with our GC and the J&G partner to fix problems -- for which we were billed a lot of money.
In speaking to other in-house attorneys at the time, I found that our experiences were not unique. I recommended we find another outside firm, but our GC was afraid that J&G's business was slipping (this was 2001, immediately post-enron), so he wanted to keep sending business to his buddies.
If the quality lawyers start leaving in droves, the real business of the firm will go with them and the firm will crumble. Firms have fallen apart for less.
Austin(it's good to be back in the ATX)tatious
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