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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 +Scale Matters
In the past we have written that for law firms scale—number of partners and total lawyers, number of offices, total revenue, &c.—doesn’t really matter. The distinctions that clients care about center around specific domain/practice area expertise, track record, a...
Juneteenth
Happy Birthday, Adam Smith!
Born this day in 1723 in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, across the Firth of Forth from Edinburgh. Today he would be 303.
Milton Friedman: “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon”
This is another installment in our series of profiles of leading economists from Capitalism and its Critics. Milton Friedman was born in Brooklyn in 1912 and died in San Francisco in 2006 at age 94. He is known as the primary apostle of monetarism, which is the...