Law firms are living under a high-powered media microscope these days, with reporters and pundits at the controls. Although law firm leaders do not always welcome the increasing coverage, paradoxically it is healthy for the industry more broadly. To paraphrase Justice Louis Brandeis, sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.

But the scrutiny, not all of which is well informed, is also leading to perverse consequences for some firms.

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