by Bruce | June 5, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, M&A, Strategy
Apropos the results of the readership survey, which found a high number of respondents worried about the seemingly relentless consolidation of the legal industry—apparently from both those participating in the consolidation and those wanting to be left...
by Bruce | June 4, 2005 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, M&A, Strategy
"Inimitable" is grossly over-used, but I’m at a loss for words after reading Aric Press’s latest column introducing the current issue of The American Lawyer and recognizing again what an iconoclastic thinker he is. (Disclosure: Aric,...
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 | June 1, 2005 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Strategy, Technology strategy
My article at Law Technology News on Milbank’s outsourcing their wordprocessing to Chennai, India, is now up. How, you might well ask, could control-freak lawyers possibly cope with the news that their documents would not be processed under their...
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...