by Bruce | May 13, 2026 | Articles, Book Reviews, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
Continuing our series on prominent economists from the Industrial Revolution to AI, drawing liberally on the impressive accomplishment of John Cassidy’s Capitalism and its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI (John Cassidy, Farrar, Strauss and...
by Bruce | April 30, 2026 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
This is another installment in our series of profiles of leading economists from Capitalism and its Critics. It’s our first profiling not a champion of capitalist progress but a stout opponent. Cassidy opens this, Chapter 3 of his work (“The Logic of the Luddites”)...
by Bruce | April 22, 2026 | About the Site, Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy, Technology strategy
Being published live today are links to video recordings of my recent interview with Sidebar Advisors’ Founder and Managing Director, Niraj Chhabra. Copious thanks to Niraj and his team for making this possible. Spotify Apple Buzzsprout We covered a lot of...
by Janet Stanton | April 19, 2026 | Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Strategy
The following column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. Ten years ago, the topic of succession planning was viewed like kryptonite; the mere mention caused folks’ hair to burst into flame. Fortunately, those days are (mostly) over. Many firms are...
by Bruce | April 13, 2026 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Profiles of Individuals, Strategy
May I welcome you to the first of a few Adam Smith, Esq. portraits of notable economists? My source for all in this series is the redoubtable Capitalism and its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI (John Cassidy, Farrar, Strauss and Giroux: New...
by Bruce | March 12, 2026 | Articles, Book Reviews
Lloyd Blankfein’s Streetwise was just published and as of this writing is on Amazon’s “Top 20” bestsellers list. [Streetwise: Getting to and through Goldman Sachs, Penguin Press New York: 2026]. I just finished it. I cannot recommend it. Slow down! How dare I...
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 6, 2025 | About the Site, Branding, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures
Recently Janet was invited to participate in a Bloomberg Law podcast on the topic of Ropes & Gray remaining a single-tier partnership despite the industry’s overwhelming movement towards the two-tier (equity and non-equity) partnership model. Her fellow...
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...
