by Bruce | December 31, 2004 | About the Site, Articles, Compensation, Finance, Just Plain Interesting, Strategy
I just finished reading Tombstone: A Lawyer’s Tales from the Takeover Decades (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 1992) by Lawrence Lederman, former chairman of the corporate practice at Milbank-Tweed (and still a partner there), who started his career as...
by Bruce | December 27, 2004 | About the Site, Articles
Back from four days in California (Laguna) for Christmas, seeing my wife Janet’s parents. No matter how many Christmas’s I have spent in California or, earlier in my life, Florida (Sarasota, where my parents retired), I simply cannot get used to...
by Bruce | December 23, 2004 | About the Site, Articles
"Adam Smith, Esq." was born early last year, and, as the calendar inevitably rolls over, I want to wish each and every reader a Merry Christmas, and the most propitious of New Year’s, reflecting whatever your hearts most desire and your dreams most...
by Bruce | December 21, 2004 | About the Site, Articles
The first day of winter and 13 degrees for my run in Central Park this morning. This expresses it wonderfully:
by Bruce | December 18, 2004 | About the Site, Articles
Yours eyes don’t lie; we have changed the color palette, and sharpened up the top-line banner while we were at it. Although, I personally am fond of the "believing is seeing" formulation—an ironic trope on the surpassing ability of human...
by Bruce | December 17, 2004 | About the Site, Articles
Reader participation alert! The question du jour which I’m posing to all of you, dear readers, is: Should I change the white-text-on-black-background look of the site? Here’s the story: When I first launched "Adam Smith, Esq.," I was...