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BigLaw: Above the Law Editor Elie Mystal on the Future of the AmLaw 200

By Marin Feldman

Originally published on September 29, 2009 in our free BigLaw newsletter. From layoffs to salary freezes to dissolutions to deferrals, the landscape of large firms has changed significantly over the past year. While many large firms struggled in the downturn, Above the Law, the legal blog that reports the bad (and sometimes good) news to the associate masses, has positively thrived, with 8,000,000 page views and over half a million unique visitors every month. Large firm veteran Elie Mystal has served as Above the Law's editor for more than a year. Given his unique vantage point, we recently cornered him for an interview. Do you think firms have cut associate jobs to maintain profits per partner (PPP)? Yes, of course. Is that necessarily a bad thing? Law firms are for-profit businesses, and if associates didn't know that in 2007, they know that now...continue to full post

Full post as published by TechnoLawyer Blog on September 29, 2009 (boomark / email).