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Summer Reading List 2025

In keeping with our tradition at Adam Smith, Esq. of publishing a summertime diversion in the form of a selective list of what we’ve been reading lately, herewith the 2025 installment: Fiction, nonfiction, and one millennia-old classic. Our hope is that you might find... read more +

Gender Diversity in Law Land: Reason for Hope?

by | Apr 22, 2019 | 2 Comments

The following column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. The reason we’ve never written about gender diversity before is that there was frankly not much to say; regurgitating dispiriting statistics without offering credible remedy is not what we do.  But...

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Who Does Your Law Firm Serve?

by | Apr 15, 2019 | 11 Comments

The hard core bulls-eye  of our practice is helping firms assess, refine, or discard and re conceive their strategic plans.  We approach and  proceed through the course of these engagements--as we do in all our work--without preconceived templates, 2 x 2 matrices or...

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Letter from Bogota

by | Apr 1, 2019 | 0 Comments

Last week I spent three full days in Bogota, meeting with firms and colleagues, giving a talk at the always-wonderful "Gun Club," and generally trying to soak up as much market intelligence as I could. Although I've been to Bogota several times--our Director for Latin...

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News Notes from Bogota

by | Mar 26, 2019 | 0 Comments

"La Republica," one of the two leading business/finance papers covering Colombia, saw fit to publish a couple of pieces last week around my breakfast talk with local law firm leaders at the delightful Gun Club in Bogota last week.  First was a day-before teaser...

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On Business Models

by | Mar 15, 2019 | 1 Comment

AT&T's long-delayed acquisition of Time Warner finally closed some days ago, and within about a week The Wall Street Journal put out a front-page story "It was once 'game of thrones' inside Time Warner: AT&T said, enough."  What had been "powerful fiefs...

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