Johnson Controls GC Seeks Three-Way Law Partnerships

There are a number of myths that float down to law students about what life will be like in the legal profession. One of the more popular images is of a junior associate shut away in a dimly lit storage room, buried in boxes. Until recently, document review was one way in which a law student’s Big Law dream was also his or her nightmare.

It was a different kind of nightmare for clients. Where associates saw hours of tedium, and asked whether law school was really worth it, corporate clients saw dollar signs, and asked whether the associates were really worth it. If young ...