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Sure You’re Smart, But Do You Think? (There is a difference)
The following article is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. LLC. Our industry is awash with really smart people. You kinda have to be to get into and through a top law school. Then, why is there such a paucity of creative thinking in Law Land? After... read more +TechnoLawyer: Newsletters + A Blog
Neal Squillante, publisher of the "can't find this stuff anywhere else" TechnoLawyer newsletters, has launched a companion blog called, duh, "TechnoLawyer Blog." Among other things, you can subscribe to the aforementioned newsletters...
Rudy Giuliani: Back to the Future
Bracewell & Patterson—make that Bracewell & Giuliani—announced that Rudy Giuliani, who really needs no introduction, is joining the firm to start a New York office for the 60-year-old Houston-based firm (400 lawyers, #121 on the most recent AmLaw...
KM & Marketing: The Great Synthesis
Marketing and Knowledge Management Are Joined at the Hip, is the theme today. How so? Isn't marketing fundamentally outward-directed and KM fundamentally inner-directed? Not in my view. Let's start with the basics: Law firms' product is...
The Deal Market is Back! But Hey, What About the Rest of Us?
The American Lawyer's cover story this month is about how the corporate/transactional deal market "is back," five years after it went away. Equity offerings nearly tripled in value in 2004 (to $43-billion, famously including Google) and an estimated...
Could There Be an AmLaw 100 Enron?
A new blog, Legal Ethics + Legal Technology, put together by Ben Cowgill, has invited guest authors, including me, to post their thoughts this week, on issues related to professional ethics. While I have often said that "Adam Smith, Esq." is all about...