The Majorie Firm has a relatively “flat” organization chart. Doesn it save money if the work is distributed to different levels of lawyers based upon their experience and cost?
Sometimes yes, most times no. Although the theory for using a staffing pyramid is to save costs, in reality the structure can be very inefficient. The lawyers on the team vary greatly in degree of experience. Each lawyer reports to the lawyer higher up the chain until all of the lawyers have had a “piece” of the work. No one lawyer, except maybe the senior partner, has a good idea of how or where their work fits into the overall strategy. And if the senior partner is not spending a lot of time and attention to your case, then there is no one who knows why they are doing what they are doing to solve the client’s problem. In a lot of cases, it’s kind of like the old parable about blind men describing the elephant. But in this case it’s worse, because each blind man is being paid to grope the elephant and then have in-firm conferences and write memos about it on an hourly basis. The Majorie Firm avoids this problem in three ways: First, we tie how we get paid to what value we create for t
