by Bruce | August 14, 2013 | About the Site, Articles, Globalization, Leadership
In partnership with our good friends at Above the Law, I’ll be in Toronto the evening of Tuesday, September 10th discussing “Growth Is Dead: Now What?”. The event will run from 6:30 to 9:00 pm and will include a cocktail reception before and...
by Bruce | July 23, 2013 | About the Site, Articles, Book Reviews, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Actually, this is for all our readers, but for those of you in the Eastern time zone in the US, you’ll need to be up at 11:00 pm this coming Wednesday the 24th of July. This is what I’m referring to: The LAWASIA Law Management Section has kindly set up a...
by Bruce | July 3, 2013 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Book Reviews
A publishing rite at this time of year is for sites far and wide to offer their own recommended “Best Summer Reading” lists. For all things there’s a first, so here is Adam Smith, Esq.’s First Annual Summer Reading List. (And I reserve the...
by Bruce | June 25, 2013 | Articles, Compensation, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Adam Smith, Esq. isn’t in the business of covering—or typically even commenting on—late-breaking news, but there’s news and then there’s news. And the Weil layoffs were reported above the fold on the front page of today’s Wall Street Journal...
by Bruce | May 31, 2013 | Articles, Business Models, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Next in our series on a taxonomy of law firms are the capital-markets centric firms. If you think this moniker roughly translates to the classic New York white shoe elite, move to the head of the class. But, as much in our world at the start of the 21st Century,...