by Bruce | June 2, 2005 | About the Site, Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, M&A, Marketing, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Technology strategy
The long-awaited results (speaking for myself, at least) of the famous first-ever "Adam Smith, Esq." Reader Survey are now in, and I hasten to share them with you, dear reader, as audience participation was extremely strong, and gratifying. My...
by Bruce | June 1, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
DLA Piper [Rudnick Gray Cary?—I’m quite confident they shortened the name, but their website doesn’t reflect it] is partnering with Harvard Business School to launch what is to my knowledge the second-of-its-kind lawyer "executive...
by Bruce | May 31, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Strategy
"More Lawyers Flee Megafirms" is the intriguing headline from The National Law Journal, which sounds like an invitation to an article exploring the commonly-received-wisdom that the AmLaw 200 are consolidating–and debunking it. Guess again. The...
by Bruce | May 27, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Ian Davis, worldwide managing director of McKinsey, has a thoughtful piece over at The Economist attempting to mediate a truce between the evangelists of "Corporate Social Responsibility" and the Milton Friedman-ite school that "the business of business...
by Bruce | May 26, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Few challenges within sophisticated and far-flung law firms seem as difficult to get right as Knowledge Management, and I’ve recently been exploring some theories as to why this is so. After all, lawyers of all people should excel at KM—information...
by Bruce | May 23, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Professor Carley, as well as a frequent correspondent who I will identify only as the director of KM at an AmLaw 100 firm, have come through. First, Professor Carley provided a working paper on the Enron email database, and told me that under the auspices of her...