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Shout Out to Kirkland
This column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. We generally eschew commenting on daily comings-and-goings in Law Land. We make an exception here, because this is actually huge news. I’m speaking about Kirkland’s decision to stop disclosing financial info... read more +“Lawyers Are Bad Businesspeople.” And That Would Be Entirely Their Fault?
Can you say what an incremental dollar of revenue will contribute to profit at your firm? Does it matter if that marginal dollar comes from an existing client or a new client, or which practice group generates it? More pointedly, not all business is good...
Wilmer Cutler and Seyfarth Shaw Join the Executive Education Parade
Wilmer Cutler, in conjunction with Harvard Business School, and Chicago's Seyfarth Show, with Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, have now followed Reed Smith and DLA Piper in initiating formal long-term collaborative efforts to train their current and future...
New York, London, and Hong Kong vs. Everywhere Else
"Equilibrium" is a term that has special meaning in economics, although its definition can seem somewhat tautological: It's the state of affairs where there is no impetus or force for change. The textbook example is where the price in a given...
More Evidence of, Well, More
In more evidence of what it's nice to have more evidence of, The Legal Intelligencer reports that the marketplace for lateral moves is twice as active in Philadelphia so far this year vs. last year. Various hypotheses are trotted out, from headhunters and firm...
Are You a Prince or a Baron?
Aren't you relieved that you don't have wolfpacks of Wall Street analysts and the multimedia, 24/7 business press breathing down your neck to deliver "the numbers" every quarter? Isn't it great living in private-firm land and having the luxury of...