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How High the Sky?
We’re in the thick of BigLaw’s year-end earnings season, where firms left and right are reporting their FY2024 financial results. The numbers of greatest interest from a macro-industry perspective–setting aside the perennial gossip-intensive zero... read more +“Golden handcuffs: dealmaking lawyers weigh up their own Faustian bargains:” Andrew Hill, the Financial Times
In today's FT, Andrew Hill, their gifted and prolific management essayist, published a column of that name (link works only for FT subscribers) discussing the unheard-of pressures on corporate deal lawyers--partners and associates alike--given the superheated private...
Leadership Notes From All Over
We'll be brief. Two thumpingly different examples of leadership behavior crossed my desk in the past 24 hours, one unforgettable in its inspirational caliber and the other equally memorable, but for the "frogmarch-that-person-to-the-door" response it called forth. The...
Back to the Office! (Say What?)
We've written that leaving the office was trivial, at least in retrospect--"fire alarm's going off, everyone leave the building"--but that returning is going to pose one of the most complex financial-cultural-operational-technological-recruiting &...
“We’re Insanely Busy” (Update), Plus: Who’s Getting the Work
Scorching new data out on the volume of deal-making over the last 12 months or so, from Refinitiv courtesy of The Wall Street Journal ("Cash-laden companies are on an M&A Spree"). Ready for some once-in-a-lifetime-career numbers?: In the first six months of 2021,...
We Have a Scal(ability) Problem
We’ve written at fair length about our “maroons/grays” model for segmenting the law firm industry. Essentially, the model rejects customary or traditional dimensions of “compare and contrast” including: Size (revenue or headcount) Type of firm (litigation boutique,...
