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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 +

Fun With Rate Increases: How High is Too High?

by | Jun 15, 2022 | 1 Comment

A few days ago the intrepid and data-tropic Bloomberg Law reporter Roy Strom published Big law rates topping $2,000 leave value 'in the eye of the beholder.'  Roy is a friend (disclosure!)  but his story prompted some reflections hereabouts on "How high is too high?" ...

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Happy Birthday, Adam Smith!

by | Jun 5, 2022 | 0 Comments

Well, OK, recordkeeping around births and deaths was approached a bit more casually 299 years ago, but June 5 is the consensus best guess. And here at Adam Smith, Esq., we are sticking to it!  

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Recession? Time for Scenario Planning!

by | Jun 1, 2022 | 2 Comments

This article was co-written with Janet Stanton, Partner. As you know, we have recently published our thoughts on the likelihood of a recession in the United States:  Reasonably high, in a nutshell.  We won’t rehearse our reasoning here in detail, but the root cause...

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