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The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics Goes To…..
The Nobel in Econ (a/k/a The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) for 2024 was awarded a few days ago to Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of MIT and to James Robinson of the University of Chicago. Here at Adam Smith, Esq., we try to... read more +What is Strategic Client Management? And Why Should You Care?
The following article is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. Note: This article was recently sent to our subscriber list. (See what you're missing??) Now that we are squarely in an era of new possibilities and are thoroughly inoculated to the notion that,...
Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020)
I met RBG only once, but the impact has lasted ever since. In third year of law school, I participated in Moot Court. Our hypothetical case (before the “US Supreme Court”) pitted a Tennessee school board with an all-male “academic” track against a 17-year-old girl. ...
Build Back Better: For or Against Cities?
The world’s leading business media have written at length—in pieces both speculative and just-the-facts—about scenarios for global metropolitan areas post-Coronatide, and in our humble microdot of the media universe, Adam Smith, Esq. has also published “Whither the...
Summer Reading List
Some of the books that have crossed my desk, and end-table, over the past few months. This year of Coronatide, I define “summer” loosely, as I suspect many of you do. Sometimes it all feels like March has been extended for an indefinite run. (September 1 would be...
Part 3 of Our Series on the 2020 AmLaw 200: Envy and its Discontents
Thomson Reuters' Legal Executive Institute was kind enough to ask us to undertake some analysis of the recently released AmLaw 200 for 2020. This is our third and final installment in that series, which we publish with their generous permission. (Their lightly...