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Our Culture of Individualism

A week or two ago I picked up a copy of David Brooks’ latest, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life, and while this is not a book review or anything like it (I confess that I’m just a few chapters into it so far), early on he offers a few... read more +

Our Culture of Individualism

by | May 14, 2019 | 3 Comments

A week or two ago I picked up a copy of David Brooks' latest, The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life, and while this is not a book review or anything like it (I confess that I'm just a few chapters into it so far), early on he offers a few observations on our...

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Is Your Firm a Pyramid or a Diamond?

by | May 9, 2019 | 6 Comments

We have written before about the profession's seeming disconnect between how people perceive the typical law firm, in terms of lawyer career-level distribution, and reality.  The perception, from history, is that of a relatively small number of partners on top of a...

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Gender Diversity in Law Land: Reason for Hope?

by | Apr 22, 2019 | 2 Comments

The following column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. The reason we’ve never written about gender diversity before is that there was frankly not much to say; regurgitating dispiriting statistics without offering credible remedy is not what we do.  But...

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Who Does Your Law FIrm Serve?

by | Apr 15, 2019 | 11 Comments

The hard core bulls-eye  of our practice is helping firms assess, refine, or discard and re conceive their strategic plans.  We approach and  proceed through the course of these engagements--as we do in all our work--without preconceived templates, 2 x 2 matrices or...

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Letter from Bogota

by | Apr 1, 2019 | 0 Comments

Last week I spent three full days in Bogota, meeting with firms and colleagues, giving a talk at the always-wonderful "Gun Club," and generally trying to soak up as much market intelligence as I could. Although I've been to Bogota several times--our Director for Latin...

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