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Shout Out to Kirkland
This column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. We generally eschew commenting on daily comings-and-goings in Law Land. We make an exception here, because this is actually huge news. I’m speaking about Kirkland’s decision to stop disclosing financial info... read more +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...
Blogosphere Meets Real World: A Gift
Back from four days in California (Laguna) for Christmas, seeing my wife Janet's parents. No matter how many Christmas's I have spent in California or, earlier in my life, Florida (Sarasota, where my parents retired), I simply cannot get used to waking up the...