by Bruce | July 28, 2026 | Articles, Business Models, Generative AI, Strategy, Technology strategy
About a month ago, Steven Croley, Chief Policy Officer and GC at Ford Motor–who, full disclosure, I do not know–published a column on Bloomberg Law opening with the commonplace observation that AI is disrupting the legal services market for large public...
by Bruce | July 17, 2026 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles
Although “birth certificates” were far in the future in 1723, today is by consensus deemed to be Adam Smith’s birthday, in 1723, in Kirkcaldy, Scotland. Today he would be 303.
by Bruce | July 9, 2026 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership
You should not be surprised to learn that in my travels across the legal, business, and strategic commentariat, I form opinions–some probably too quickly or too definitively–about the quality of what I’m reading. As an exercise that began as casual...
by Bruce | July 4, 2026 | Articles, Ineffable
The Constitution of the United States Article I, Section 1: All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States Article II, Section 1: The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. Article III,...
by Bruce | June 26, 2026 | Articles, Branding, Business Models, Client Relationships, Generative AI, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy
In the past we have written that for law firms scale—number of partners and total lawyers, number of offices, total revenue, &c.—doesn’t really matter. The distinctions that clients care about center around specific domain/practice area expertise, track record, a...
by Bruce | June 19, 2026 | Articles, Ineffable
by Bruce | June 5, 2026 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles
Born this day in 1723 in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, across the Firth of Forth from Edinburgh. Today he would be 303.
by Bruce | May 27, 2026 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
This is another installment in our series of profiles of leading economists from Capitalism and its Critics. Milton Friedman was born in Brooklyn in 1912 and died in San Francisco in 2006 at age 94. He is known as the primary apostle of monetarism, which is the...
by Bruce | May 25, 2026 | Articles, Ineffable
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...
