Shortly after Big Law consultant Bruce MacEwen released his book “Growth is Dead: Now What?” he was less depressed by that dire conclusion than by what he considered law firm leaders’ inability to face up to it. That was in February last year. Then something happened that he did not expect: His book began selling. And it “gave everybody permission,” he said, to admit to the staying power of the post-recession challenges facing the insular community he often refers to as “Law Land. …