Would You Advise Your Clients to Operate This Way?

Run a multi-hundred-million dollar a year enterprise without appointing a general counsel?  Sounds like the kind of thing you'd advise your clients against in, say, a heartbeat?  News flash:  26 of the AmLaw 50 firms are doing just that. Well, but,...

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What a Difference a Pond Makes (Revisited)

Reader response to "It May Be More Than a Pond" has been very gratifying, with some genuine insights into the perplexing, and growing, difference in profitability between US- and UK-based firms.  Put together, we may be approaching a viable theory of...

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In Good Company…

"Adam Smith, Esq." won a spot as one of three "personal favorites" over at BlawgReview #1, for the recent "Savvy Blawgers" post on the billable hour.  Gosh, thanks, but I owe it all to them.

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Practice Group Management Forum 2005

Thanks to Susan Raridon Lambreth of Hildebrandt International, guru of Practice Group Management, I was able to serve as blogger-in-residence at this conference held here in New York over the last two days.  I'm happy to be able to report that the attendees were...

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