No, We're Not Imagining This: Paul Weiss Isn't Paul Weiss Any More

 This is the post on Fishbowl Big Law:

"Paul, Weiss is clearly on a different level at this point. Should be v5"

It is followed by responses such as:

"100% agree. P,W taking over!!!"

"They’re so hot right now"

"They’ve poached several associates from my group. Crazy."

Not so long ago the law firm was a target of bad press. A bad spot to be in. My hunch is that back then they chose to lay low, not only in branding but also in operations. A kind of  bunkering.

Then, the cloud seemed to lift. The media moved on to issues such as the slowdown in M&A which triggered layoffs and hiring freezes. On those influential professional social networks Kirkland & Ellis became the joke. In May the partners voted Brad Karp back in. The rest is history.

Karp is in his early 60s. That's young currently. So he can keep up this torrid pace of outpacing that big kahuna Kirkland & Ellis in innovation, landing major brandname accounts, poaching talent, power and influence. The rumor is that Paul Weiss is even taking a page from the Kirkland & Ellis playbook and creating a Non-Equity Partner tier.

Paul Weiss is not Paul Weiss any more. So it's puzzling that the website still has a long long section section on its history and the values of that time. No one cares. Not the clients. Not stars being recruited. Certainly not the media. And, probably not even senior partners. 

In coaching more and more clients are coming to me for exactly this kind of shift. Paul Weiss, like Dentons, can launch a consulting arm. That would be on organizational transformation.

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