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&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;Alan Dershowitz&amp;#8217;s &lt;font color=&quot;#800080&quot;&gt;review&lt;/font&gt; of a new Louis Brandeis biography&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;declares:&lt;i&gt; &lt;/i&gt;&amp;#8220;All in all, [Brandeis] may well qualify as the greatest legal personage in American history.&amp;#8221;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;The term &amp;#8220;legal personage&amp;#8221; is used advisedly:&amp;nbsp;Brandeis is the only name which would appear on the short lists of the greatest American lawyers&lt;i&gt; and&lt;/i&gt; the greatest American judges.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Moreover:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;#8220;He would also be included on a list of America&amp;#8217;s most important social reformers and innovators, having developed savings bank life insurance and new ways of practicing law. He was the co-author of what may well be the single most influential law review article in history &amp;#8212; on the right to privacy. And he was the most significant American in helping to establish the state of Israel.&quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;And yet, according to a new book,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN&quot;&gt; &amp;#8220;The Management Myth: Why the Experts Keep Getting It Wrong,&amp;#8221;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;this amazing record of accomplishment is somewhat&amp;nbsp;sullied by the fact that &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span lang=&quot;EN&quot;&gt;&amp;#8220;[i]t was Brandeis who brought Taylor national and international acclaim.&amp;#8221;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;This &amp;#8220;Taylor&amp;#8221; is F.W. Taylor, the founding father of &amp;#8220;scientific management&amp;#8221; (aka &amp;#8220;Taylorism&amp;#8221;), today known to us as management consulting.&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;If it wasn&amp;#8217;t clear from the title, Stewart&amp;#8217;s book aims to debunk the practice of management consulting (e.g., &amp;#8220;it isn&amp;#8217;t a science, it&amp;#8217;s a party trick&amp;#8221;), about which Louis Brandeis once declared &amp;#8220;Of all the social and economic movements with which I have been connected, none seems to me to be equal to this in its importance and hopefulness &amp;#8230; Efficiency is the hope of democracy.&amp;#8221;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;Stewart acknowledges that although Brandeis was not a man easily duped, he did fail to grasp that, from the very beginning, &amp;#8220;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;fudging, lying, and inflating are the [management consulting] profession&amp;#8217;s stock-in-trade.&amp;#8221;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; -posted by brian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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Alan Dershowitz’s review of a new Louis Brandeis biography declares: “All in all, [Brandeis] may well qualify as the greatest legal personage in American history. ”  The term “legal personage” is used advisedly: Brandeis is the only name which would appear on the short lists of the greatest American lawyers and the greatest American judges.

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