by Bruce | January 2, 2008 | About the Site, Articles
At the end of one year and the beginning of a new, it’s fitting that I offer to you all a report on the state of "Adam Smith, Esq." As Presidents intone at the start of their State of the Union address (I believe utterly without fail), I can report...
by Bruce | August 31, 2007 | Articles, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Strategy, Technology strategy
CIO Magazine recently announced its 20th Annual CIO100 Awards, recognizing 100 CIOs deemed most effective at transforming their firms through IT innovation . The winners included CIOs from Bryan Cave, Foley & Lardner, Goodwin Procter,...
by Bruce | July 17, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
When we left Allen & Overy in June 1971, Jim Thomson had just died. "He, more than any one other single individual, represented Allen & Overy; in the minds of many people in the City, clients and competitors alike, Jim Thomson was Allen &...
by Bruce | June 23, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Sometimes we take our IT infrastructure for granted—too much so. In the last few weeks I’ve encountered a succession of stories where client relationships were strongly reinforced by astute deployment of IT assets. Call it the intersection of marketing and...
by Bruce | March 29, 2007 | Articles, Globalization, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Profiles of Individuals, Strategy
"A freezing rain was falling one March afternoon in Tarrytown, New York, and I was thinking about frogs." Does that sound like the proper introduction for an AmLaw 30 Firm Chair to use for an article with the theme, as he says farther on, that "I expect...