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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 +Headhunting Your Next Managing Partner?
A contested election for managing partner?! If your reaction is quelle horreur, perhaps you should think of taking a page from corporate-land and imagining not only that the race for the top spot might be competitive, but imagining that an outsider with a track...
“Mergers 101” [Continued]
"Mergers 101" prompted some reader response curious for more detail behind my concluding observation about how the composition of the AmLaw 200 as of 2004 differed from that as of 1999. Here are the raw numbers: 11 firms were acquired 3 dissolved 8...
Mergers 101
If you read only one article this quarter about mergers, this should be it. Not only is the author the former managing partner of Andersen Legal (until it imploded), before that he was managing partner of Clifford Chance. Sure, he comes from a UK-centric...
The CIO/CFO Lingua Franca
"Finance is the language of business decisions." True, or merely the imperialistic mindset of the MBA at work? Agree or disagree, without some common language, decisions will not be made, and finance is at least a language tied to relatively...
The Lawyer/IT “Digital Divide”
That IT professionals can't "speak" to business professionals and vice versa is a universally recognized truism. (To paraphrase Mae West, "Men and women have nothing in common; all men think about is women, but all women think about is...