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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 +IT Security: The Global State of the Art
IT security, like Mom and apple pie, is something everyone's in favor of. That's why it's interesting to see what an authoritative publication like CIO magazine finds out when it does a survey of the global state of the art (in this case, involving over 8,000...
I’m Not Gonna Pay a Lot for That 401(k)
Regular readers may have noted, even if subliminally, that I almost never post about an article appearing in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, or similar ubiquitous publications. Why not? Because I assume you've already seen it. But rules are...
Equilibrium in Partner Compensation?
Getting partner compensation "right" is an issue I have, and will continue to, recur to. Why? Essentially because I believe that the two extreme models (the strict lockstep and the strict "eat what you kill") each works in only the...
“London Calling…”
OK, let me be blunt: AmLaw 200 firms are simply too large and too complex enterprises to be managed with any less professionalism and strategic and financial acuity than equivalent-sized corporations. (These days, "equivalent-sized" means about...
A “Pop Quiz” (and not from Al Qaeda this time)
Speaking of disaster recovery (the preferred term, with a nuanced difference, is "business continuity"), how would you stress-test your plans? Some months ago, I wrote about how the Department of Homeland Security should learn "best...