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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 +“Organizational Network Analysis,” Or Why Your Litigators Don’t Talk to Your Deal Lawyers
Professor Carley, as well as a frequent correspondent who I will identify only as the director of KM at an AmLaw 100 firm, have come through. First, Professor Carley provided a working paper on the Enron email database, and told me that under the auspices of her...
Enron’s 1.5-Million Emails: A Window Into Knowledge Management?
Today's New York Times has an article purporting to recount what patterns a few computer science professors have discovered in 1.5-million internal Enron email messages, drawn from the 1999-2001 period. "Purporting" because the article is infuriatingly...
Give The Client What They Want? Not So Fast
Jim McGee, labeled by Buzz Bruggeman as "the smartest guy in America about Knowledge Management," not to mention a fellow Princetonian who I hope to see at Reunions at the end of this week, has a pithy new article up at the ESJ site reminding us that what...
Bruce Profiled on “LawCrossing”
The LawCrossing site just went live with a profile of me, written by the engaging reporter Regan Morris. Here's a nice sound-bite: "'I started out in stealth mode because there's always the dangerous possibility that you might not have anything to...
“Client at the Core:” A Serialized Book, Right Here
Yesterday I met Bruce Marcus, at a Starbucks outside Columbia University's main gates, a very convenient walk from home for me. Venus even came along. Bruce Marcus was most recently co-author of "Client at the Core," described on the leaf as...