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A noble career is facing its defining point in time. From law colleges to the prestigious firms that symbolize the pinnacle of an legal career, a crisis is unfolding. Media headlines tell part of the story - the growing oversupply of new law firms, widespread career dissatisfaction, and spectacular implosions of preeminent law firms. Yet excited hordes of bright young people continue steadily to step over the other person as they seek jobs with high rates of depression, life-consuming time, and little guarantee of financial stableness. The Great Tough economy has only worsened these trends, but correction is possible and, now, imperative. In The Law firm Bubble, Steven J. Harper uncovers what sort of culture of short-term thinking has blinded some of the nation's finest heads to the long-run implications of their actions. Law university deans have ceded independent common sense to flawed U.S. Media & World Survey rankings criteria in the pursuit to maximize instant results. Senior partners in the nation's large law organizations have focused on current profits to improve American Law firm search rankings and individual riches at great cost with their companies. Yet, wiser decisions - being honest about the legal job market, revisiting the financial incentives currently driving bad behavior, getting rid of the billable hour model, and even more - can take the career to a better place. A damaging indictment of the greed, shortsightedness, and dishonesty that now permeate the legal career, this insider bill is essential reading for anyone who would like to know how things proceeded to go so wrong and how the career can right itself once more.