Down through the ages there has always been a necessity for the government to get involved in the peaceful resolution of assorted issues. Individuals, families, companies, and even separate governments have always had qualms with one another. Governments have passed laws governing the peaceful conduction and resolution of such affairs. However, over the centuries, and more especially in the past couple hundred years, the laws dealing with resolution have come to be increasingly complex and impenetrable to the layperson. Law offices have rushed in to meet this need, this requirement for ever-increasingly able defense and prosecution. Rarely can the average person devote enough time and effort to research and learn the multitude of laws regarding their cases. Law firms, and the attorneys, or lawyers, that held in their employ specialize in this highly competitive, and lucrative, industry. It is unlikely that the law firm will ever disappear from human society. On the contrary, some of the largest companies in the business have only gotten their starts in recent years.



Law offices are based around finding highly qualified individuals capable of a number of things. A good lawyer must exemplify a number of important attributes. A good memory is often necessary for retaining and knowledge of past experiences and legal precedents for use in making a case for a client. The greatest lawyers would not have reached where they are without a great deal of charisma, which is necessary to convince juries of the innocence or guilt of plaintiffs and defendants; and charisma, naturally, is based around good speaking abilities. These are only a few examples of the requirements put upon a modern attorney.

Now, consider that these are the important attributes individual lawyers must possess and one comes to realize that as an organization any highly successful firm must epitomize these qualities. Anything less can, and often has, resulted in the eventual fading out, and sometimes the near-instantaneous disappearance, of some law firms. In such a competitive market, some law offices find that they devote nearly as much funding and resources to their own defense as that of their clients. A multitude of affidavits and other legal documentation is needed in order for such firms to fulfill their obligations, which results in a ballooning of the lower tiers in particular of such companies. These companies have powerful management at the upper levels of their hierarchy, a middle region of the company well stocked with capable defense and prosecution, and in addition to this the lowest levels consist of clerical and secretarial workers. Without all these levels working together, such organizations cannot last long in modern times.