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Janet on Bloomberg Law re the Non-Equity Tier

Recently Janet was invited to participate in a Bloomberg Law podcast on the topic of Ropes & Gray remaining a single-tier partnership despite the industry’s overwhelming movement towards the two-tier (equity and non-equity) partnership model.  Her fellow... read more +

But I Don’t Want to Change!

by | Jan 4, 2005 | 0 Comments

In a happy confluence, two articles which are far stronger together than is either alone were pointed out to me today by two loyal readers.  The first is The American Lawyer's current "Management" column, about Customer Relationship Management systems...

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“If You Can Make it Here, You Can Make it Anywhere”

by | Jan 3, 2005 | 0 Comments

The Lawyer (UK) is out with its Global 100 for 2004 and their gloss on the raw statistics, understandable given their perspective, highlights the different approaches to globalization taken by UK and US firms.  One strategy to adopt vis-a-vis globalization...

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Happy 2005

by | Jan 1, 2005 | 0 Comments

Happy New Year to all my readers, from New York.  I'll be watching the Times Square ball drop, as I hope you will as well, in whatever time zone you're in (and no, I haven't been foolish or drunken enough to watch it in person for many years).  Of course,...

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Tales of the Takeover Decades from Inside Wachtell

by | Dec 31, 2004 | 1 Comment

I just finished reading Tombstone:  A Lawyer's Tales from the Takeover Decades (Farrar, Straus & Giroux:  1992) by Lawrence Lederman, former chairman of the corporate practice at Milbank-Tweed (and still a partner there), who started his career as an...

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Practice Group Management & Business Plans

by | Dec 30, 2004 | 0 Comments

A theme I want to develop, and which I've alluded to before, is the impact that "Practice Group Management" can have on a firm's strategy, cohesiveness, and profitability.  What is "practice group management," in a nutshell?  It's...

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