by Bruce | February 12, 2026 | About the Site, Articles, Branding, Business Models, Generative AI, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
The following is a guest post from our long-time friend and astute observer of Law Land, Alastair Morrison. –Bruce & Janet Alastair Morrison, Legal Consultant Alastair Morrison is a London-based legal consultant with extensive experience in law firm...
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...
by Bruce | November 4, 2025 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Back in March we first wrote about the theretofore-inconceivable systematic attack on BigLaw by our current Administration in Washington, DC. The “program of revenge,” as we described it, calculatedly targeted law firms representing clients and interests...
by Bruce | October 1, 2025 | Articles, Business Models, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
In the most recent of what’s beginning to feel like a parade of star litigators jumping ship from BigLaw, comes word that Karen Dunn has left Paul Weiss to join a startup litigation boutique; in the first few months of its existence it’s already past two...
by Bruce | July 27, 2025 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Strategy
A few weeks ago a law land journalist asked us if we had any insights to offer about the above-average rate of expansion of law firms in a particular US metro market—which itself had been expanding at an above-market rate in business investment and population. This...
by Bruce | March 17, 2025 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
Here at Adam Smith, Esq. our robust, and for 20+ years inviolate, policy has been never to comment on current affairs. That ends today. We value no civic principle more highly than the primacy of the Rule of Law. And we have long had the luxury of being able to take...