Thorstein Veblen: The Man Behind Conspicuous Consumption

May I welcome you to the first of a few Adam Smith, Esq. portraits of notable economists?  My source for all in this series is the redoubtable Capitalism and its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI (John Cassidy, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux: New...

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Book Review: Lloyd Blankfein’s Streetwise

Lloyd Blankfein's Streetwise was just published and as of this writing is on Amazon’s “Top 20” bestsellers list.  [Streetwise: Getting to and through Goldman Sachs, Penguin Press New York: 2026]. I just finished it.  I cannot recommend it. Slow down!  How dare I...

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Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

The following is a guest post from our long-time friend and astute observer of Law Land, Alastair Morrison.   --Bruce & Janet Alastair Morrison, Legal Consultant Alastair Morrison is a London-based legal consultant with extensive experience in law firm strategy...

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Ask Not for Whom GenAI Tolls

Law Land in general, and BigLaw in particular, has a firmly established and proud custom of not being the first.  To almost anything.  I say this based on personal experience, because the almost invariable response to a novel proposal is, "Who else is doing it?"  And...

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Janet on Bloomberg Law re the Non-Equity Tier

Recently Janet was invited to participate in a Bloomberg Law podcast on the topic of Ropes & Gray remaining a single-tier partnership despite the industry's overwhelming movement towards the two-tier (equity and non-equity) partnership model.  Her fellow panelist...

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