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Beck noted the recent suicide ofa laid-off lawyer at at Atlanta-basede firm, and the fact that more than 2,800o lawyers have been let go from at leasyt 62 of the nation's 200 largesyt firms during the economic downturn. "It's time for lawyers at big firmz to reassess their priorities and she wrote. "You just can'r keep going like this." The law Beck said, is "filled with likable people, but too many seem unhappy, or unfulfilled, or so stressedc that they're miserable.
" But "of the law firmzs I’ve covered," Beck added, "the one that has struc me as havingthe happiest, most well-rounded lawyerd and has been consistently delightful to deal is Holland & The Denver-based firm, she is "a blip on The Am Law 200 -- a 385-lawyet firm with revenue of $180 million that operates in flyover territory: Denver, Aspen, Jackson Hole, Salt Lake City, and the like. A New York partnere might mistake their profitsper $385,000, for the cost of redecorating her East Hamptoj summer cottage.
"Holland & Hart lawyers put in an hones day's work, but leavw time to ski, and hike, and and enjoy life outside their offices," she "And they genuinely seem to likeeach They've never demoted a partner to nonequithy status, never merged with a big firm to improvre their 'platform,' never boosted their partner-associated ratio beyond 1:1, and never laid off associates for economic The piece came in for comment Fridat . "Lawyers at Denver’a Holland & Hart can’t be happy all the time," wrotde Ashby Jones. "They lose work weekends and engagein mind-numbingly awfulp discovery disputes, just like lawyers at other firms.
"That we nearly signed up to take the Coloradol bar exam after readingSusan Beck’s piece."
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