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Our Existential Moment
Here at Adam Smith, Esq. our robust, and for 20+ years inviolate, policy has been never to comment on current affairs. That ends today. We value no civic principle more highly than the primacy of the Rule of Law. And we have long had the luxury of being able to take... read more +M&A, Globalization, and Another Thing
Of late we've gotten a number of queries from reporters asking us if we think the M&A/private equity investment tsunami of the last year and a half or more has peaked. A wise friend once advised that volunteering forecasts could be performed safely so long as you...
Last Call to Associates: How’s The New Normal for You?
Dear Reader-associates. Let your voice be heard while there's still time! With the heavy lifting done by our friends at Above the Law, we wanted to draw your attention to a brand-new survey delving into how associates have been experiencing the pandemic/lockdown, how...
Calling All Associates: How’s The New Normal for You?
Dear Reader-associates. With the heavy lifting done by our friends at Above the Law, we wanted to draw your attention to a brand-new survey delving into how associates have been experiencing the pandemic/lockdown, how their firms and bosses have behaved or...
The Associate Comp Wars & Thick/Thin Communities
I don’t have the grey cells or, frankly, the spare time to keep track, blow by blow, of the Great Associate Comp Wars of 2022, but fortunately Above the Law does and has. From January 20th of this year, when Milbank kicked off the festival of riches arms’ race,...
Planning for the Unknowable: Part 2
In our first installment of this two-part series, we left off by asking why the composition of the Fortune 500 across a quarter-century span, from 1995 to 2020—widely thought of as an era of widespread disruption for major corporations—had actually been remarkably...
