Future Firm 102

Last week I mentioned how the business model of the legal profession has real problems and that maybe the current crisis may spur us to fix it. In June’s American Lawyer, Susan Beck uses the tragedy of two recent lawyer suicides to raise the same issues. Her observation: “The cracks in the foundation expand by the day.”

Ms. Beck holds up Holland & Hart as having a possible model for the profession’s future: a good income and a sensible work/life balance. Holland & Hart, the largest firm in the Rocky Mountains, is based in Denver where I practice with Minor & Brown. I have a number of friends at Holland & Hart, so I am pleased for the positive attention they are receiving for the choices they are making.

Law firm partners are of course business owners. I tell my kids that the ability to make choices about the business is the best part of owning a business; it is also the toughest part. Here’s to making good choices.