Sublime

Ovitz was brains and science; Meyer was heart and culture.

Ovitz’s breakthrough idea was to build an integrated network that would allow any of the firm’s agents to connect their clients to a firm-wide grid of new opportunities. As a result, the firm would be a hundred times more powerful than any one agent at any other agency. To implement the idea, Ovitz and his founding partners agreed to defer their sa

I really didn’t have an agent until Michael; I just had a lawyer, Bert Fields.

But Michael had a clear vision: If he could build a firm so good that it attracted all the top talent in the world, then he would shift the economics of the industry from the corporations to the talent, where he felt that it belonged. The firms of the day were essentially collections of

As part of our effort to sign more clients, we went out and befriended every major lawyer in town because that was where we thought we would get new business from.