The perfect storm inside top law firms
Something unprecedented is happening among the legal eagles: the fledglings are revolting.
Founders of legal disrupter Sprintlaw Alex Solo and Tomoyuki Hachigo. Mr Solo says the legal world has to change. “You hear it from so many lawyers out there, ‘I love the work but hate the culture’," he said.
In September last year, management at top-tier law firm Ashurst received a letter unlike any they had seen before.
Nineteen of the young lawyers who had just completed the firm’s prestigious graduate program had banded together to ask for more money.
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