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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... read more +Bloomberg Law Interview on the Non-Equity Tier
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How High the Sky?
We're in the thick of BigLaw's year-end earnings season, where firms left and right are reporting their FY2024 financial results. The numbers of greatest interest from a macro-industry perspective--setting aside the perennial gossip-intensive zero sum game of lateral...
The Beauty of the Eisenhower Box
This column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. One of the most enduring and vexing problems we all face (almost all the time) is how to sort through the myriad competing (conflicting?), shifting priorities that arise minute-by-minute and pull us in all...
Industrial Concentration in Law Land
‘We want to use this combination to forge a new global elite,’ Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) CEO Justin D’Agostino tells Legal Business as he discusses the firm’s ambitious merger plans with New York’s Kramer Levin. So opens LegalBusiness’ main article[1] late last...