Bloomberg Law
April 19, 2017, 12:57 AM UTC

Dentons Chair on ‘The Big Picture Race’ to Move Upstream

Casey Sullivan

In today’s legal market, a lawyer who considers him or herself a generalist and doesn’t adapt to change may find themselves out of the job.

At least that’s the case at the 7,600-lawyer Dentons, which this week experienced a mild tremor as news surfaced in The American Lawyer that “as many as 20 or more partners have been forced out” of the firm since January.

The negative publicity of the layoffs still lingering Tuesday afternoon, the firm’s chair Joseph Andrew stressed that the development should be taken in appropriate context, and explained that the firm — about two years after its ...

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