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The Rule of Law

I don’t know what role, if any, a deity might play in your life, but on my exceptionally short list of immanent beliefs worthy of worship is The Rule of Law: In a nutshell, “no one is above/all are equal before the law.” Its pedigree goes back in human history, way... read more +

Job Description: Managing Partner

by | Mar 9, 2025 | 2 Comments

The following column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq., LLC---Bruce We were wondering what a help-wanted ad for a Managing Partner[1] would look like; knowing of course, that we’ll never see one.  For better or worse, it remains unthinkable for a law firm...

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How High the Sky?

by | Feb 16, 2025 | 0 Comments

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 sum game of lateral...

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The Beauty of the Eisenhower Box

by | Dec 17, 2024 | 0 Comments

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...

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Industrial Concentration in Law Land

by | Dec 9, 2024 | 2 Comments

‘We want to use this combination to forge a new global elite,’ Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) CEO Justin D’Agostino tells Legal Business as he discusses the firm’s ambitious merger plans with New York’s Kramer Levin. So opens LegalBusiness’ main article[1] late last...

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