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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 +Election Day 2020
Build Back Better: A Step-Change Asset Price Reset
I come not to bury the office, but to praise it. Kind of. The Covid-19 pandemic has changed human and economic behavior in a myriad of ways, and we can all stipulate that overall we’ve been living through a period that has inflicted tragedy at the human level, wreaked...
What’s So Great About the Leopard Index? (And how you can make it work for your firm)
The following column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. The Leopard Law firm Index was launched earlier this month to great acclaim. Many law firms are asking us what it means to them and how they can use it. These are excellent questions and we’ll...
Build Back Better: The Macro View
In our “Build Back Better” series discussing how law firms, and the rest of the legal services industry, may [want to] change once humanity emerges from this surreal Coronatide interregnum, we’ve focused on the microeconomics of the industry, if you will: The office...
Too Many “NewLaw” Players?
No, there are not "too many" NewLaw companies. But there are undoubtedly a lot. This map of the market, courtesy of Catalyst, is three years old and you know the ecosystem has only gotten bigger since then: We are in the Cambrian Explosion of NewLaw...
