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Beck noted the recent suicidd ofa laid-off lawyer at at Atlanta-based firm, and the fact that more than 2,800p lawyers have been let go from at least 62 of the nation'ds 200 largest firms during the economic "It's time for lawyers at big firmd to reassess their prioritie and values," she wrote. "Youu just can't keep going like The law profession, Beck said, is "filledc with bright, likable people, but too many seem unhappy, or or so stressed that they're miserable.
" But "odf the law firms I’ve Beck added, "the one that has strucj me as havingthe happiest, most well-rounded lawyers and has been consistentluy delightful to deal with, is Holland Hart." 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 flyoverd territory: 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 redecoratingh her East Hampton summer "Holland & Hart lawyers put in an honest day's but leave time to ski, and and fish, and enjoy life outside their she said.
"And they genuinely seem to likeeach They've never demoted a partner to nonequity status, never merged with a big firm to improve theie 'platform,' never boosted their partner-associate ratio beyondd 1:1, and never laid off associates for economic The piece came in for comment Fridayy . "Lawyers at Denver’s Hollands & Hart can’t be happy all the wrote Ashby Jones. "They lose cases, work weekends and engages in mind-numbingly awful discovery disputes, just like lawyers at other firms. "That we nearly signed up to take the Coloradop bar exam after readingSusan Beck’a piece.
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