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Summer Reading List 2025

In keeping with our tradition at Adam Smith, Esq. of publishing a summertime diversion in the form of a selective list of what we’ve been reading lately, herewith the 2025 installment: Fiction, nonfiction, and one millennia-old classic. Our hope is that you might find... read more +

Tales from the Client Service Front

by | Oct 22, 2021 | 3 Comments

We've had our corporate checking account with Bank of America for over 15 years.  This is the story of why it's no longer there. A few weeks backI got a letter in the mail from BofA and luckily did not toss it aside unopened as very-likely-spam.  It announced that our...

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Fun With Numbers: Global Edition

by | Oct 8, 2021 | 0 Comments

ALM recently released its “2021 Global 200” law firms.  (The “2021” rankings reflect FY 2020 results, as is ALM’s somewhat perverse custom.)  These are, by their count, the largest 200 firms in the world by revenue.   They also released the “2021 Global” firms ranked...

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Travel (??–!!)

by | Oct 8, 2021 | 0 Comments

A brief note from the Publisher:  Apologies to all our loyal readers for not having published anything new for a few weeks, but believe it or not that's because business travel has actually been back in the calendar.  (Together with all the pre-prep that entails and...

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Credit Suisse and the Failure of Complex Systems

by | Sep 8, 2021 | 1 Comment

A few weeks ago, the investigation Credit Suisse commissioned Paul Weiss to undertake into how the bank's relationship with Archegos Capital Management went so wrong--inflicting $5.5 billion of losses on Credit Suisse and a total of $10-billion in losses across the...

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LawLand’s Newspeak, or, Our Perversion of English

by | Aug 15, 2021 | 2 Comments

Pop quiz: What language has no words for "democracy," "science," or "religion?" While you're mulling that one over, with apologies to one of the great English language rhetoricians and bromide-busters of the 20th Century, George Orwell (1903--1950), we have often...

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