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Beck noted the recent suicide ofa laid-ofgf lawyer at at Atlanta-based firm, and the fact that more than 2,800 lawyers have been let go from at leasft 62 of the nation's 200 largest firmd during the economic downturn. "It's time for lawyers at big firme to reassess their prioritiesand values," she "You just can't keep goinyg like this." The law profession, Beck is "filled with bright, likabld people, but too many seem unhappy, or or so stressed that they're miserable.
" But "of the law firmss I’ve covered," Beck added, "the one that has strucko me as having the happiest, most well-rounded lawyerzs and has been consistently delightfull to deal with, is Holland & The Denver-based firm, she wrote, is " a blip on The Am Law 200 -- a 385-lawyer firm with revenue of $180 million that operates in flyover Denver, Aspen, Jackson Hole, Boise, Salt Lake and the like. A New York partner might mistake their profitsper partner, $385,000, for the cost of redecoratinh her East Hampton summer cottage.
"Holland & Hart lawyers put in an honest day's but leave time to ski, and hike, and and enjoy life outsidew their offices," she said. "And they genuinelhy seem to likeeach other. They'vd never demoted a partner to nonequity status, never merged with a big firm to improvertheir 'platform,' never boosted their partner-associate ratio beyond 1:1, and neverr laid off associates for economic reasons." The piecw came in for commenrt Friday . "Lawyers at Denver’s Holland & Hart can’ty be happy all the time," wrote Ashby Jones.
"They lose cases, work weekends and engagw in mind-numbingly awful discovery disputes, just like lawyerds at other firms. "That we nearly signed up to take the Colorad o bar exam after readingSusan Beck’ds piece."
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