Media Coverage
Source: The Washington Post
Media Coverage
12.21.14
Washington Post legal reporter Catherine Ho this week spoke to DC partners Debby Baum and Sheila Harvey to discuss the firm’s recently implemented department head roles. Baum and Harvey’s positions as leaders of the Litigation and Regulatory departments, respectively, along with San Francisco partner David Snyder’s role as head of the Business department, are meant to eliminate the traditional specialty divisions that can often lead to isolated practices in a large corporate firm. The partners told the Post the updated model will better serve clients because business will be more integrated across the entire firm.
“Rather than clinging to the internal structure of law firms, which tend to be defined by legal specialization, if a client has a problem, they have a problem, and they want their problem solved,” Harvey said. “They don’t get into the minutiae about how we define ourselves in terms of our professional specialties."
Baum and Harvey also discussed Pillsbury’s futures committee and further potential changes to the firm’s business model – read the full story here.