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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 +Resilience and the Post-Covid World (Build Back Better)
With vaccines no longer a distant deus ex machina but here today in the cargo holds of aircraft at 35,000 feet, on FedEx and UPS trucks nationwide, and soon at a friendly neighborhood pharmacy near you, it’s time to refocus on what the contours of Law Land’s...
More News from the Leopard Index: Diversity is Now Reflected in the Ratings
This column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. Yes, we’re pretty much mercilessly flogging the Leopard Law Firm Index. Why? Because in the information-desert that is Law Land, the Leopard Index provides high-quality, easily accessible data firms can use...
Question of the Month: November 2020–Whither the Office?
You know what to do! Check this space for final results. Polls will remain open until the Board of Elections (yours truly) says they're closed. No recounts. [poll id="21"]
Law Firm Slogans: A Moment of Levity
This column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. Slogans just don’t work for law firms. This from a girl who spent the better part her career working with organizations that often lived or died by their taglines: “Nobody doesn’t like Sara Lee,” “We don’t...
Election 2020 (Part II)
The horror has come now like a storm—what if this night prefigured the night after death—what if all thereafter was an eternal quivering on the edge of an abyss, with everything base and vicious in oneself urging one forward and the baseness and viciousness of the...