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Data? Data? We don’t need no stinkin’ data (with apologies to John Huston)
The following article is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq.–Bruce A few years back, we were meeting with the Executive Committee of one of Canada’s Seven Sisters firms. As part of our staying current on trends in Law Land, we often meet with firms... read more +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...
Build Back Better: The Covid-19 “Slingshot”
If one is looking for an image to encapsulate the Covid-19 "Slingshot" phenomenon, you will find an embarrassment of riches. But this has to be one of our favorites. In 8 weeks--a heartbeat in a human lifetime--the penetration of online retail increased by 11...
Build Back Better: Whither the Office? (Part 2)
Perhaps I should have said upfront in Part 1, but it’s never too late: In this series I’m discussing the office after humanity has re-emerged from the global isolation ward this dratted pox has lowered on us all. I am not discussing, and have no interest in,...
Is the Am Law 200 even a “category?”
Our good friends at Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute asked us to offer some reflections on the recently released AmLaw 200 for 2020. Our first, "How Not to Think About the AmLaw 200," was published in late June and here, republished by their courtesy, is our...
