In private practice, both men advised many corporate chiefs.Long before the Enron scandal, the decline of the lawyer-statesman was being regretted in books such as "The Lost Lawyer", by Tony Kronman, a dean of Yale Law School, and "The Betrayed Profession", by Sol Linowitz, a former general counsel (and chairman) of Xerox.
When Anthony Kronman, a professor and former dean of Yale School of Law, wrote nostalgically in 1995 about "the lost lawyer," he has in mind the "found lawyer" who is no longer concerned with the health of the community but only with the wealth of his employers, generally large corporations.
Mr. Weiss acknowledged his disadvantage, but also strongly rejected the suggestion that his firm had lost lawyers to morale problems or better offers.
Mr. Boies represented Al Gore and Mr. Olson represented Mr. Bush; it seems fair to say that this crowd had been rooting for the losing lawyer in that case.
The losing lawyer, after all, was Theodore B. Olson, the solicitor general chosen by President Bush, hardly an enemy of states' rights.
For example, in Fig. 1 C three lawyers win the case, receiving weight of 0.33 from every losing lawyer, resulting in a total weight of 1 for each.
On the other hand, every losing lawyer divide its (unit) prestige equally, so if many lawyers win against one lawyer their weight will be smaller in comparison to winning with a smaller set of lawyers.
However, in Fig. 1 D each winning lawyer receives the same weight of 0.33, but now there is only one losing lawyer, giving a total of 0.33 weight to each winner.
IN late December, a small Silicon Valley law firm, tired of losing lawyers to Internet start-ups, raised salaries for its associates by a remarkable 40percentt.
On the other hand, any individual firm that did not give raises risked losing lawyers immediately, as would probably happen if the firms now tried to scale back salaries to their earlier levels.
The community legal sector welcomed the latest decision, saying centres had already been losing lawyers and winding back services, but called for a long-term funding boost to better protect vulnerable people.
