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A.I.: Friend or foe? Webinar–You’re Invited!
Thursday May 2nd: 11:00 a.m. – 12 noon Eastern Time (US and Canada) How is A.I. impacting BigLaw? Bruce, Janet and the esteemed Toby Brown of DV8 Legal Strategies will discuss the ways Gen A.I. is impacting law firm business models and what the implications are... read more +Don’t Take My Lockstep Away
I have often written on the tension between lockstep compensation and eat-what-you-kill, and I'm coming to the view that a nuanced, subjective, and openly ad hoc approach is probably the best, all things considered. Each of the polar end-points on that spectrum...
“There’s No Crying in Baseball”
Cut me a break on this one, folks. Opening Day is scant weeks away, but all the baseball headlines are about lately are steroids, Congressional inquiries, allegations and denials, asterisk'ed records, and taking-the-Fifth's. But sometimes, from a situation that...
The Eternal Disequilibrium
Lockstep vs. eat-what-you-kill: Joined at the hip? Legal Week argues, using the apparently unending saga at Clifford-Chance as a journalistic "hook," that the boundary zone between the two models is wide and flexible, not narrow and bright. Now at one...
Twilight of the Boutiques?
Despite the stupefying fact that The Wall Street Journal reported late last year that 45% of Americans believe "literally" in the Biblical story of Creation, whereas only 31% subscribe to the theory of evolution (have you thanked a teacher today?), Darwinian...
Effective or Virtuous: Pick One
Just when the drum-beat of KenLayBernieEbbersDennisKozlowskiMarthaStewart began to seem as unstoppable as, well, a tsunami, the always-refreshing Michael Schrage tees off at "the pea-brained 'ethics-ification' of business decision-making:" "Be...