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The Forces That Launched Management Consulting Are Still at Work

After graduating from the law and business schools at Harvard, I joined a large corpo­rate law firm in Cleveland in June, 1930. As the Great Depression deep­ened, I became involved in the legal side of corporate bond defaults and worked with many bondholders’ com­mittees. The committees, which were made up largely of the investment bankers […]

Tactical Aspects of Supporting Business Litigation

Business litigation often in­volves so much detailed infor­mation and data that counsel as well as the court are hard put to comprehend it. As complexity in­creases, the need becomes pressing for someone with sufficient knowl­edge and expertise to put data into perspective, explain how it is used, what it means, and why it is rele­vant. […]