by Bruce | March 31, 2005 | About the Site, Articles, Leadership, Marketing, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
First: Thanks to my (old) good friends at American Lawyer Media (particularly the always entertaining Monica Bay, expert on all things related to legal technology), I’ll be blogger-in-residence at the Chief Technology Officer/Chief Information Officer...
by Bruce | March 30, 2005 | About the Site, Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Marketing, Strategy
In "Do You Blog?," the cover story in this month’s Washington Lawyer, reporter Sarah Kellogg provides a comprehensive recap and overview of how the legal blogosphere has evolved since its earliest days. Not incidentally, she concludes with a...
by Bruce | February 14, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Marketing, Strategy
I’ve reviewed the merits of the Pillsbury-Winthrop/Shaw Pittman merger before, but now I want to ask a different question: What if anything does this portend for the merger/consolidation trend in general? If you believe Hildebrandt’s annual...
by Bruce | February 4, 2005 | Articles, Finance, Leadership, M&A, Marketing, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Roughly speaking, there are two theories of history: That people shape events, or that events shape people. As a confirmed subscriber to the former theory, this American Lawyer profile of Bingham-McCutchen’s chair, Jay Zimmerman, tells the tale to me of...
by Bruce | February 3, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Marketing, Practice Group Management, Strategy
One of the most promising and optimistic pieces I’ve read in awhile comes courtesy of John Smock, co-founder of Smock Sterling Strategic Management Consultants outside Chicago. Essentially a look-back at his twenty years of experience being a strategic...
by Bruce | January 29, 2005 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Just Plain Interesting, M&A, Marketing, Strategy
One-stop data shopping about the size and composition of the legal services industry? It’s here on one handy page put together by "Envision Agency," a new name to me, which describes itself as a "full service marketing agency specializing in...