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My Bloomberg Law Interview on Leverage
Many thanks to our good friends at Bloomberg Law for asking me in to chat about the economic and revenue/profit function of leverage in BigLaw. Take a look! read more +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,...
Editorial to U.S. News & World Report Re Your Law School Rankings: Cut it Out!
Last Friday I participated in a day-long conference at Fordham Law School on "Professional Challenges in Large Firm Practices" and was invited by Professor Bruce Green, creator of the conference, to be a speaker on one of four panels, on "The Billable...
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...
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.
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...