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Pay Wars & MSO’s: Huh?

by Bruce | September 15, 2026 | Articles, Business Models, Client Relationships, Cultural Considerations, Generative AI, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy

David Morley, former head of Allen & Overy and, happy disclosure, a long-time friend, just published an article over at law.com that starts like this: The call usually comes on a Friday afternoon. A star partner has an offer from a rival: an eight-figure...

Are You Smarter (at AI) Than Your Clients?

by Bruce | July 28, 2026 | Articles, Business Models, Generative AI, Strategy, Technology strategy

About a month ago, Steven Croley, Chief Policy Officer and GC at Ford Motor–who, full disclosure, I do not know–published a column on Bloomberg Law opening with the commonplace observation that AI is disrupting the legal services market for large public...

Bruce Interviewed About Agentic AI

by Bruce | April 22, 2026 | About the Site, Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy, Technology strategy

Being published live today are links to video recordings of my recent interview with Sidebar Advisors’ Founder and Managing Director, Niraj Chhabra.  Copious thanks to Niraj and his team for making this possible. Spotify Apple Buzzsprout We covered a lot of...

Ask Not for Whom GenAI Tolls

by Bruce | January 18, 2026 | Articles, Business Models, Generative AI, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy, Technology strategy

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...

The Billable Hour and [vs.?] Pricing AI-Driven Legal Services

by Bruce | September 17, 2024 | Articles, Business Models, Finance, Strategy, Technology strategy

A few weeks ago, we raised the topic with our friends at Thomson Reuters Legal Practice Management about what the consequences of a widespread deployment of Generative AI might portend for–you guessed it–the business of law firms, and in short order the...

A.I.: Friend or foe? Webinar–You’re Invited!

by Bruce | April 24, 2024 | About the Site, Articles, Strategy, Technology strategy

Thursday May 2nd:  11:00 a.m. – 12 noon  Eastern Time (US and Canada) How is A.I. impacting BigLaw?  Bruce, Janet and the esteemed Toby Brown of DV8 Legal Strategies  will discuss the ways Gen A.I. is impacting law firm business models and what the implications are...
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