by Bruce | August 27, 2004 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
Will 8% of all lawyer jobs be "outsourced" by 2015? So Forrester Research would have it. GE’s inhouse department claims to have already saved $2-million by putting eight lawyers and nine paralegals in Gurgaon, India. So the...
by Bruce | August 25, 2004 | Articles, Finance
Sexy it’s not, unless where the $$ is bleeding off without much chance of controlling it gets your attention, but this McKinsey piece addresses controlling health-care benefit costs (albeit in the context of F500 companies). When I was a junior in college...
by Bruce | August 24, 2004 | Articles, Knowledge Management
Remember when Knowledge Management was new and sexy, about ten years ago? This professor of information management does; barely five years ago he wrote about 20 CKO’s in the Sloan Business School magazine, and now few of those positions still exist. ...
by Bruce | August 23, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures
Although this Hildebrandt article dates back to 2000, its premise that law firms of the future will migrate to the model of having full-fledged CEO’s as business leaders strikes me as visionary then and almost palpably the direction in which the world is headed...
by Bruce | August 21, 2004 | Articles, Leadership, Marketing
When the latest edition of Corporate Counsel magazine landed in my mailbox last week, I had the perverse impulse to tear out and focus on the major law firm ads to see if there were any common threads. Unfortunately, there were. One was the pervasiveness of two...