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The Beauty of the Eisenhower Box
This column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. One of the most enduring and vexing problems we all face (almost all the time) is how to sort through the myriad competing (conflicting?), shifting priorities that arise minute-by-minute and pull us in all... read more +A Sense of Place (It Matters After All)
Geography--a "sense of place"--is often taken for granted as the inevitable but fundamentally random by-product of historical happenstance, and almost never appreciated for the strategic dimension it provides--like it or not. Because it's seen as foreordained, law...
Law Firms Fail in the Oddest Way (All of Them)
Recently across my desk came a copy of a thoughtful and comprehensive article on why law firms collapse. Or rather, I should say, a pair of articles on that topic, both by John Morley, Yale law professor {his name was not familiar to me). The pair of articles consists...
A Late Summer Reflection: The Real Adam Smith
And now for something rather different. Not infrequently we're asked how, or why we named our firm Adam Smith, Esq. The short and true somewhat beside-the-point answer is that it's a bit of wordplay on the intersection of economics (Adam Smith) and law (the...
Two Nasty Trends About to Collide?
We distributed this column several weeks ago to our "friends and family" opt-in email list (which has a handsome level of subscribers and is free--what's taking you so long? [sign up at the foot of our homepage]) but herewith on our public site. You may not like what...
Summer Reading List
This column is becoming something of a tradition, and traditions must be maintained. Sitting on various handy tables and shelves around the office and the den at home are, among many other things, the following books taking front and center pride of place during the...
