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Managing a giant law firm is without question a more complex job than it was even a decade ago, let alone in the 1990s. Consequently, there’s something intuitive about my colleague Patrick Smith’s report on Thursday that Weil Gotshal & Manges is shaking up its leadership structure for the first time in 30 years.
