Talk:Boutique law firm

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[edit] Move to "Boutique law firm"?

"Boutique firm" is pretty generic. An i-bank specializing in high tech M&A or a partnership of architects focusing on luxury hotels would each lay claim to the term. Should we move this article to "boutique law firm"? "Boutique" and "boutique firm" should perhaps then be disambiguation pages. Pygora123 05:54, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

Good idea. Thanks. --Edcolins 19:30, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

I have moved the article. Feel free to edit boutique firm. --Edcolins 19:53, 30 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Cleanup

Thanks for reverting my cleanup. I won't revert it again, but will try to improve this article, which still falls short of Wikipedia standards IMHO. Let's take:

• "There can be some confusion because commentators can refer to any small-sized firm as a boutique" - Can we provide a source for that?
• "... a few national IP firms ..." - US centric?
• "... perhaps the most prestigious law firm in the United States ..." - Seems awfully biased to me?

--Edcolins (talk) 16:24, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

The source (Tamar Lewin, Business and the Law: Smaller Firms are Vanishing, New York Times, March 9, 1987.) provided for supporting "Boutique law firms have been losing ground since the 1980s in the consolidation of the legal market" does not verify the statement. The source does not mention "boutique law firm", but just "small law firms", which as I understand is not the same, right? More than that, I cannot see why a 1987 source could support an assertion that since the 1980s (i.e. also throughout the 1990s and 2000s) boutique law firms would be loosing ground. Cheers, --Edcolins (talk) 16:39, 11 May 2008 (UTC)