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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 +

Back to the Office! (Say What?)

by | Jul 25, 2021 | 0 Comments

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 &...

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We Have a Scal(ability) Problem

by | Jul 6, 2021 | 0 Comments

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,...

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“We’re Insanely Busy!”

by | Jun 8, 2021 | 1 Comment

If we've heard that once over the last couple of months..... It's getting to the point where we wonder if those words threaten to become the lyrics of the Great Summer of 2021 Breakout Pop Hit Single.  Actually, we leave that to the Great Clive Davis and the demigods...

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