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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 +“If You Can Make it Here, You Can Make it Anywhere”
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...
Happy 2005
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,...
Tales of the Takeover Decades from Inside Wachtell
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...
Practice Group Management & Business Plans
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...
Are Your CIO and Your Managing Partner on Speaking Terms?
You may not be familiar with the name Michael Schrage, but as an early founder of MIT's path-breaking Media Lab, and as a gifted writer no matter the topic, he's someone I read whenever I come across him. His latest piece is in the elastic and forgiving...