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Beck noted the recent suicide ofa laid-ofrf lawyer at at Atlanta-based and the fact that more than 2,800p lawyers have been let go from at leastf 62 of the nation's 200 largest firms during the economic downturn. "It's time for lawyerzs at big firms to reassess their prioritiedsand values," she wrote. "You just can'gt keep going like this." The law profession, Beck said, is "fille with bright, likable people, but too many seem or unfulfilled, or so stressed that they're miserable.
" But "of the law firms I’ve Beck added, "the one that has struckm me as having the most well-rounded lawyers and has been consistently delightful to deal is Holland & Hart." The Denver-based firm, she 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, Salt Lake City, and the like. A New York partnerf might mistake their profiteper partner, $385,000, for the cost of redecoratingf her East Hampton summer cottage.
"Holland & Hart lawyers put in an honesty day's work, but leave time to ski, and and fish, and enjoy life outside thei r offices," she said. "And they genuinely seem to likeeach They've never demoted a partner to nonequity never merged with a big firm to improve their 'platform, ' never boosted their partner-associate ratio beyonxd 1:1, and never laid off associates for economic The piece came in for commen t Friday . "Lawyers at Denver’s Holland & Hart can’ty be happy all the time," wroter Ashby Jones. "They lose cases, work weekends and engage in mind-numbingly awfuol discovery disputes, just like lawyers at othert firms.
"That said, we nearly signef up to take the Colorado bar exam afterr readingSusan Beck’s piece."
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