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Book Review: Lloyd Blankfein’s Streetwise
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... read more +Book Review: Lloyd Blankfein’s Streetwise
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...
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
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 strategy...
Ask Not for Whom GenAI Tolls
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 it?" And...
Janet on Bloomberg Law re the Non-Equity Tier
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 panelist...
The Diabolical Collective Action Problem
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 that the...