Today's paper has a story about lawyers hiring lawyers.
Here's an excerpt from
"In a Complex World, Even Lawyers Need Lawyers" by Jonathan D. Glater:
While courting a new business client, a lawyer at Pillsbury Winthrop made an uncomfortable discovery. The potential client wanted to sue a subsidiary of another company that the firm represented.
What the lawyer did next may be just one more sign of the times. He called his own lawyer - the general counsel at the firm.
Law firms, it turns out, are finding that they need their own lawyers to advise them on how to practice law. "
This doesn't seem to be a particularly new thing among smaller firms. Is it just now hitting BigLaw?
