View from Boston
Ms. Naughty but Sweet,
Not sure you got Hill & Barlow right. Two years ago, no one around here would have thought of them as a real estate firm. They were an old line general practice frim with lots of strong groups, including real estate but including a number of other practice areas as well. However, they were also smaller than most of their peers and didn't want to hook up with a national firm. So, they kept trying to grow out of that awkward mid-level firm size, but the only group who seemed to know how to grow was the real estate group. So, they just outgrew the firm while the firm wasn't looking, and the rest of the firm just didn't keep up.
I think H&B may be the flip size of Arter & Harden. If Arter and Harden hadn't tried to grow, they might well have learned H&B's lesson instead of the one they are learning now.
Just some thoughts. Needed some relief from the politics board.
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