Post-Recession Law Firms: A New Caste System Emerges

Editor's note from The Legal Intelligencer: This is the first in a weekly series examining how law firms adapted during the last two years and where they are headed as the economy recoversLast year, Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott CEO Timothy P. Ryan seemed well ahead of the curve when clients started pushing back on paying for the inexperience of first- and second-year associates on their