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Milton Friedman: “Inflation is always and everywhere a monetary phenomenon”
This is another installment in our series of profiles of leading economists from Capitalism and its Critics. Milton Friedman was born in Brooklyn in 1912 and died in San Francisco in 2006 at age 94. He is known as the primary apostle of monetarism, which is the... read more +Job Description: Managing Partner
The following column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq., LLC---Bruce We were wondering what a help-wanted ad for a Managing Partner[1] would look like; knowing of course, that we’ll never see one. For better or worse, it remains unthinkable for a law firm...
Bloomberg Law Interview on the Non-Equity Tier
With yours truly live on camera. Thanks to our "BLaw" friends for making this possible. Feel free to share. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhqhZp9Kckg
How High the Sky?
We're in the thick of BigLaw's year-end earnings season, where firms left and right are reporting their FY2024 financial results. The numbers of greatest interest from a macro-industry perspective--setting aside the perennial gossip-intensive zero sum game of lateral...
The Beauty of the Eisenhower Box
This column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. One of the most enduring and vexing problems we all face (almost all the time) is how to sort through the myriad competing (conflicting?), shifting priorities that arise minute-by-minute and pull us in all...
Industrial Concentration in Law Land
‘We want to use this combination to forge a new global elite,’ Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) CEO Justin D’Agostino tells Legal Business as he discusses the firm’s ambitious merger plans with New York’s Kramer Levin. So opens LegalBusiness’ main article[1] late last...