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Joseph Stiglitz: Can Free Trade Go Too Far?
Continuing our series on prominent economists from the Industrial Revolution to AI, drawing liberally on the impressive accomplishment of John Cassidy’s Capitalism and its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI (John Cassidy, Farrar, Strauss and... read more +Book Review: Lloyd Blankfein’s Streetwise
Lloyd Blankfein's Streetwise was just published and as of this writing is on Amazon’s “Top 20” bestsellers list. [Streetwise: Getting to and through Goldman Sachs, Penguin Press New York: 2026]. I just finished it. I cannot recommend it. Slow down! How dare I...
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
The following is a guest post from our long-time friend and astute observer of Law Land, Alastair Morrison. --Bruce & Janet Alastair Morrison, Legal Consultant Alastair Morrison is a London-based legal consultant with extensive experience in law firm strategy...
Ask Not for Whom GenAI Tolls
Law Land in general, and BigLaw in particular, has a firmly established and proud custom of not being the first. To almost anything. I say this based on personal experience, because the almost invariable response to a novel proposal is, "Who else is doing it?" And...
Janet on Bloomberg Law re the Non-Equity Tier
Recently Janet was invited to participate in a Bloomberg Law podcast on the topic of Ropes & Gray remaining a single-tier partnership despite the industry's overwhelming movement towards the two-tier (equity and non-equity) partnership model. Her fellow panelist...
The Diabolical Collective Action Problem
Back in March we first wrote about the theretofore-inconceivable systematic attack on BigLaw by our current Administration in Washington, DC. The "program of revenge," as we described it, calculatedly targeted law firms representing clients and interests that the...