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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 +Groves of Academe
Back from the truly lovely Midwest oasis of Bloomington, Indiana (approx. 40 miles south of Indianapolis), where I had the pleasure of guest-lecturing to a group of 30 or so smart, inquisitive, and polite-but-challenging 2L's and 3L's. Bloomington, and the...
Academic Adventures
I look forward with delight to being invited to guest-lecture at Indiana University School of Law/Bloomington in Prof. William Henderson's "The Law Firm as a Business Organization" course. I fly out there early tomorrow morning. Full report when I...
The Past 50 Years in a Nutshell
"The Industrialization of the Law Firm" is the ambitious, but fair, title of a piece by A. Harrison Barnes, Esq., founder of BCG Search. His conclusion?: "Today's law firm environment is, in a sense, now being controlled by Adam Smith's...
Revenues vs. Margins in EDD-Land
My good friend and crack wordsmith Michael Clark of EDDix LLC is striving to break new ground in the world of publishing/distribution, by charging a pretty penny (>$2,000) for a conventional copy of his new book covering the landscape of Electronic Data Discovery,...
Cash Management 101
Not to appear to be piling on, but here is yet another call for the introduction of merely sane and rational, everyday business management processes into law firm land. In this case, the topic is not recondite in the least: Plain old cash management and timely...