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Data? Data? We don’t need no stinkin’ data (with apologies to John Huston)
The following article is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq.–Bruce A few years back, we were meeting with the Executive Committee of one of Canada’s Seven Sisters firms. As part of our staying current on trends in Law Land, we often meet with firms... read more +Antonio Leal Holguin, Director of Latin America/Adam Smith, Esq.
The following column was written by Antonio Leal Holguin, Director of Latin America for Adam Smith, Esq. Back in the early 2010s I was practicing at a family-owned law firm in Bogota, Colombia. As I became increasingly interested in law firm management, I began...
Federalist #65
Friday, March 7, 1788 A. Hamilton To the People of the State of New York: [...] A well-constituted court for the trial of impeachments is an object not more to be desired than difficult to be obtained in a government wholly elective. The subjects of its jurisdiction...
2020: The Year of Law Land Segmentation
This article is co-authored by Bruce MacEwen, President, Janet Stanton, Partner and Antonio Leal Holguin, Director – Adam Smith, Esq. Lots of folks have their "Year of...." custom, often retrospectively, but here at Adam Smith, Esq., we're more about "what's next?" ...
Ain’t Misbehavin’
Not to name names, but does it strike you as it does me that we're in the midst of a global surfeit of senior leaders behaving badly? Almost every domain of human endeavor seems tarnished, or worse, by malfeasance, broken trust, power abused, or even quasi-psychotic...
Who’s Your Chief Innovation Officer?
Ten years ago (five?) the role of "Chief Innovation Officer" was almost unheard-of. Now hardly a week goes by without a firm announcing the appointment of so-and-so to that role and title. But what exactly Is a "CINO" and where do (where should) they come from?...
