by Bruce | April 19, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Run a multi-hundred-million dollar a year enterprise without appointing a general counsel? Sounds like the kind of thing you’d advise your clients against in, say, a heartbeat? News flash: 26 of the AmLaw 50 firms are doing just that. Well,...
by Bruce | April 17, 2005 | Articles, Just Plain Interesting, Strategy
Last Friday I participated in a day-long conference at Fordham Law School on "Professional Challenges in Large Firm Practices" and was invited by Professor Bruce Green, creator of the conference, to be a speaker on one of four panels, on "The Billable...
by Bruce | April 14, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Reader response to "It May Be More Than a Pond" has been very gratifying, with some genuine insights into the perplexing, and growing, difference in profitability between US- and UK-based firms. Put together, we may be approaching a viable theory of...
by Bruce | April 13, 2005 | About the Site, Articles
"Adam Smith, Esq." won a spot as one of three "personal favorites" over at BlawgReview #1, for the recent "Savvy Blawgers" post on the billable hour. Gosh, thanks, but I owe it all to them.
by Bruce | April 13, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Marketing, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Thanks to Susan Raridon Lambreth of Hildebrandt International, guru of Practice Group Management, I was able to serve as blogger-in-residence at this conference held here in New York over the last two days. I’m happy to be able to report that the attendees...
by Bruce | April 9, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Sometimes it’s not the worst thing to confess bafflement—OK, perhaps "bafflement," which implies total cluelessness, is too strong, but I will at least cop a plea to not being confident how to truly explain something. That something is, as...