Talk:Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith

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Request edit on 2 May 2018[edit]

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Replace "Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP is a law firm with 41 offices across the U.S. Founded in 1979, it has more than 1100 attorneys and is headquartered in Los Angeles, California." with "Founded in 1979, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP is a national, full-service law firm with more than 1,200 attorneys and offices in 42 cities and 26 states." See: http://lewisbrisbois.com/about/locations AND https://www.law360.com/articles/1032583.

Replace "The firm is the 20th largest law firm in the country" with "Lewis Brisbois is the 9th largest law firm in the country." See: https://www.law360.com/articles/1032583

Rational: The current description is inaccurate regarding the size of Lewis Brisbois and its ranking among the largest law firms in the country.

Add: Lewis Brisbois has frequently been recognized for its commitment to diversity. It was ranked #1 by Law360 as the 2017 Best Firm for Minority Attorneys (https://www.law360.com/articles/954585/the-best-firms-for-minority-attorneys) and #4 as the 2017 Best Law Firm for Minority Equity Partners (https://www.law360.com/articles/954556). Law360 also recognized Lewis Brisbois in 2016 as the #4 Best BigLaw Firm for Female Attorneys (https://www.law360.com/articles/954556), while the firm was ranked #22 on the American Lawyer's 2017 Diversity Scorecard (https://www.law.com/americanlawyer/almID/1202786839599/).

Rational: These are statistics about the firm that we think Wikipedia readers would be interested in seeing.

8.40.94.27 (talk) 17:52, 2 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Founded in 1979, Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP is a national, full-service law firm with more than 1,200 attorneys and offices in 42 cities and 26 states.
Partly approved.^{[note 1]}
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Replace "The firm is the 20th largest law firm in the country" with "Lewis Brisbois is the 9th largest law firm in the country."
Partly approved.^{[note 2]}
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Add: Lewis Brisbois has frequently been recognized for its commitment to diversity. It was ranked #1 by Law360 as the 2017 Best Firm for Minority Attorneys and #4 as the 2017 Best Law Firm for Minority Equity Partners. Law360 also recognized Lewis Brisbois in 2016 as the #4 Best BigLaw Firm for Female Attorneys, while the firm was ranked #22 on the American Lawyer's 2017 Diversity Scorecard.
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^ The term "full-service law firm" was replaced with the term "general practice law firm".

^ The qualification "According to..." was appended to this part of the text.

^ The data mentioned by these scorecards, including their methodologies used to attain them, would not be widely known at first glance to readers of the article. In contrast with the claim made regarding the firm's size, a claim of "diversity" — which contains many variables — is necessarily more complicated when trying to quantify. Avoiding the article having to delve into details which are beyond its scope, and without any other qualifications, would leave the task of interpretation of what these meant to the reader alone. (See WP:SUBSTANTIATE.)

[1] The term "full-service law firm" was replaced with the term "general practice law firm".

[2] The qualification "According to..." was appended to this part of the text.

[3] The data mentioned by these scorecards, including their methodologies used to attain them, would not be widely known at first glance to readers of the article. In contrast with the claim made regarding the firm's size, a claim of "diversity" — which contains many variables — is necessarily more complicated when trying to quantify. Avoiding the article having to delve into details which are beyond its scope, and without any other qualifications, would leave the task of interpretation of what these meant to the reader alone. (See WP:SUBSTANTIATE.)

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