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> Thus, there are fantastic lawyers working at Sierra Club or NRDC, but they're not going to have the same record of wins as similarly-good lawyers at a big New
by gohrt 10y ago
> Thus, there are fantastic lawyers working at Sierra Club or NRDC, but they're not going to have the same record of wins as similarly-good lawyers at a big New York firm.
Not a problem for the analysis of law firms. Sierra Club is a less effective law firm than the big New York firm.
- x1798DE 10y ago> Not a problem for the analysis of law firms. Sierra Club is a less effective law firm than the big New York firm. Why is this not a problem? The parent comment was saying that the Sierra Club takes harder cases and is often the plaintiff, not the defendant, so they may be more effective as a law firm but have worse numbers because the win/loss numbers don't mean the same things in different contexts.
- harryh 10y agoIt's also worth nothing that the Sierra Club isn't a law firm at all. It's an environmental organization that, among many other things, sometimes uses the legal system to advance its goals.