by Bruce | August 23, 2023 | Articles, Business Models, Finance, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
The following article is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. LLC. Quite simply, our reason for exploring the non-equity tier is that (a) there has been explosive growth in that cohort and (b) we’ve not seen recent, comprehensive examination of this phenomenon....
by Bruce | August 7, 2023 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
While you were out–staring at the window for the 39th time wondering how private equity seems to have taken over the world, perchance?–relatively few have noticed, until the odd recent headline here and there, about the seemingly sudden arrival on the...
by Bruce | July 30, 2023 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Just Plain Interesting
From the wide-ranging and customarily sane Virginia Postrel over at Reason comes a summer bijou: Gadgets and gizmos from Adam Smith’s time. Let’s start with what the self-respecting man about town might have carried with him as he set out for the day....
by Bruce | July 23, 2023 | About the Site, Articles, Book Reviews, Just Plain Interesting
In keeping with our custom 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 2023 installment: two novels and two nonfiction volumes that have had a prominent places on our...
by Bruce | July 16, 2023 | Articles, Branding, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategic Client Management, Strategy
It has been four years since we initially published our series laying out a law firm market segmentation model we called the “Maroons & The Grays,”[1] and four years on is none too soon for an update. No model is, or should be, static, and as we have worked with...