Young Lawyers (Gen Z) Are Getting Tons of New Business—the Old-Fashioned Way | The Legal Intelligencer (2024)

I went on a mission recently. I wanted to find out if, and then how, lawyers in their late 20s and 30s were building books of business.

Were they doing something older millennials, Gen Xers and baby boomer lawyers were not?

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