by Bruce | November 6, 2025 | About the Site, Branding, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures
Recently Janet was invited to participate in a Bloomberg Law podcast on the topic of Ropes & Gray remaining a single-tier partnership despite the industry’s overwhelming movement towards the two-tier (equity and non-equity) partnership model. Her fellow...
by Bruce | November 4, 2025 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Back in March we first wrote about the theretofore-inconceivable systematic attack on BigLaw by our current Administration in Washington, DC. The “program of revenge,” as we described it, calculatedly targeted law firms representing clients and interests...
by Bruce | October 1, 2025 | Articles, Business Models, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
In the most recent of what’s beginning to feel like a parade of star litigators jumping ship from BigLaw, comes word that Karen Dunn has left Paul Weiss to join a startup litigation boutique; in the first few months of its existence it’s already past two...
by Bruce | September 23, 2025 | Articles
Belatedly, some of you might opine, it is time to make an introductory contribution to the great debate about the impact of Generative AI on the practice, and more importantly the business and revenue/expense model, of BigLaw. (After all, this is Adam Smith, Esq. and...
by Bruce | August 17, 2025 | Articles, Book Reviews, Just Plain Interesting
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...