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Bruce Interviewed About Agentic AI
Being published live today are links to video recordings of my recent interview with Sidebar Advisors’ Founder and Managing Director, Niraj Chhabra. Copious thanks to Niraj and his team for making this possible. Spotify Apple Buzzsprout We covered a lot of... read more +How Profitable Is Our Group? Who Cares!
Now that we all have religion about organizing firms by practice groups (well, most of us, anyway), the next logical question is, to paraphrase Ed Koch, "How are we doin'?" In other words, which practice groups are the strong economic engines driving...
Christo’s “The Gates:” Take Two
I put an on-line "photo album" up about "The Gates" installation in Central Park. Check it out. You still have today, Saturday, and Sunday to experience them in person: preposterous, insane, magical, joyous—brings out the child in every...
Laterals as “Mini-Mergers”
If you asked us to name one seminal development that "changed everything" in terms of law firm economics between the stasis model of the 1950's and the dynamic model of the 1990's, we'd say it was the creation of a market for lateral partner mobility. ...
“Savvy Blawgers” Query #2: Now on Deck
Coming soon: The results of the "Savvy Blawgers Query #2!" You will recall the results of "Savvy Blawgers Query #1," which had to do with changes in law firm management over the next five to ten years. [That link also has a handy-dandy...
Professional Behavior Under Incentives
So this has nothing to do with the economics of law firms, but it has a lot to do with professional behavior under incentive regimes. Two economists at the University of Chicago have published a paper analyzing whether realtors (representing the seller of a...