First, a Dealbook post talks about the notion that maybe I-bank troubles would have been different had the banks remained partnerships.

Then, Prof. Ribstein replies that the key to his “partnership-esque” structures is really about relationship of the managers to the firm than it is about black-letter corporate structure.

And finally, to come full circle and then some, Dealbook asks whether law firms can or should be public!

The trifecta is more than enough to convince that I’m not always the only one thinking about these things.