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The Maroons & the Grays: An Update
Back in 2019 we published a three-part series introducing and fleshing out our model of the competitive market segmentation of law firms. We posited that the two primary segments of BigLaw are the “maroons,” go-to firms for bet-the-company matters garnering... read more +Profits Really Do Matter; So Does the Society Within Which We Generate Them
Ian Davis, worldwide managing director of McKinsey, has a thoughtful piece over at The Economist attempting to mediate a truce between the evangelists of "Corporate Social Responsibility" and the Milton Friedman-ite school that "the business of business...
Knowledge Management & Uncharted Professional Networks
Few challenges within sophisticated and far-flung law firms seem as difficult to get right as Knowledge Management, and I've recently been exploring some theories as to why this is so. After all, lawyers of all people should excel at KM—information and...
48 Hours Left to Take the User Survey
The "Adam Smith, Esq." user survey comes down this Friday night. If you haven't had a chance to spend the three minutes it takes, please do so. Thanks! Full report, of course, to follow.
100 Million “Missing” Asian Women
So this from Slate has nothing to do with law firms, but it's too delicious an economic commentary to pass up. Asking, "What is economics, anyway?," the piece proceeds to analyze (and largely debunk) a sinister theory first put forth 15 years ago...
Next on the KM Horizon: Simplicity (We’re Serious!)
CIO Insight often is a good read because, for my money, they provide the clearest and most convincing links between "hey, that's cool!" technology and the delivery of hardheaded on-the-ground value to management. Well, they've done it again, with an...