denotes premium content | Jan 8 2009 Feature
posted 10 Mar 2008 in Volume 2 Issue 6
Opinion: Have you been duded yet?
Just 100 years ago, law firms were composed mostly of members of a single generation. Why? Lawyers were all men, and the average life expectancy for a man was just 47.
The attitudes, values and outlook of all members of the firm were influenced by the same key lifetime events. As a result, there was no generation gap.
Thanks to great improvements in health care, today’s average person lives to be almost 80. As a result, law firms can include members of as many as four different generations – Traditionalists in their 60s and older, Boomers in their late 40s and 50s, Generation Xs in their 30s and early 40s, and, in the most recent associate classes, Generation NEXT.
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