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Happy 250th, United States
The Constitution of the United States Article I, Section 1: All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States Article II, Section 1: The executive Power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. Article III,... read more +The JD/MBA: Worth It? To You? To Your Firm?
The Indiana Unversity School of Law—Bloomington is in the process of streamlining its JD/MBA program with the Kelley School of Business. The overall goal is to encourage more students—whether they "start" on the law-school side or the...
Moore’s Law vs. Flesh & Blood
Most of the ink on the topic of outsourcing by law firms has been understandably devoted to back-office functions such as HR and tech support desks. I view the trend to house these functions elsewhere than in, say, midtown Manhattan, as eminently sensible and...
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...