Featured Article
What Happened At Weil? Not Much
What caused Weil Gotshal to fail? Frankly, given our historic experience with pre-eminent law firm failures, Weil fits no pattern we’re familiar with. Their collapse came seemingly all of a sudden and—this is without precedent among previous high-profile law firm... read more +Memorial Day
Joseph Stiglitz: Can Free Trade Go Too Far?
Continuing our series on prominent economists from the Industrial Revolution to AI, drawing liberally on the impressive accomplishment of John Cassidy’s Capitalism and its Critics: A History: From the Industrial Revolution to AI (John Cassidy, Farrar, Strauss and...
The Luddites: Crying “Stop” in the Face of Progress
This is another installment in our series of profiles of leading economists from Capitalism and its Critics. It’s our first profiling not a champion of capitalist progress but a stout opponent. Cassidy opens this, Chapter 3 of his work (“The Logic of the Luddites”)...
Bruce Interviewed About Agentic AI
Being published live today are links to video recordings of my recent interview with Sidebar Advisors' Founder and Managing Director, Niraj Chhabra. Copious thanks to Niraj and his team for making this possible. Spotify Apple Buzzsprout We covered a lot of territory,...
Succession planning; how resilient is your firm?
The following column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. Ten years ago, the topic of succession planning was viewed like kryptonite; the mere mention caused folks’ hair to burst into flame. Fortunately, those days are (mostly) over. Many firms are...