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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... read more +

Law Firm Slogans: A Moment of Levity

by | Nov 12, 2020 | 3 Comments

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...

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Election 2020 (Part II)

by | Nov 7, 2020 | 0 Comments

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...

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Build Back Better: A Step-Change Asset Price Reset

by | Oct 29, 2020 | 0 Comments

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...

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