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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 +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...
Savvy Blawgers’ Query #2: The Future of The Billable Hour
This Just In: Results of "Savvy Blawgers" Query #2 The second query to this august group concerned the future of the billable hour. My original email to the Savvy Blawgers reads in pertinent part: You should also know that I'm going to be a...
Blogging the CIO/CTO and Practice Group Management Forums
First: Thanks to my (old) good friends at American Lawyer Media (particularly the always entertaining Monica Bay, expert on all things related to legal technology), I'll be blogger-in-residence at the Chief Technology Officer/Chief Information Officer Forum here...
Calling All Blawgers
In "Do You Blog?," the cover story in this month's Washington Lawyer, reporter Sarah Kellogg provides a comprehensive recap and overview of how the legal blogosphere has evolved since its earliest days. Not incidentally, she concludes with a rousing...