by Bruce | July 4, 2012 | About the Site, Articles
by Bruce | July 2, 2012 | Articles, Knowledge Management, Technology strategy
June 23 was the 100th birthday of Alan Turing, and I was delinquent not to have written about him closer to the date, but I was searching (excuses, excuses) for the appropriate BigLaw hook. Google took the occasion to honor him with one of their famous “Google...
by Bruce | June 28, 2012 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
By what follows I may reveal a curiosity sufficiently wide-ranging as to border on the suspicious, but so be it. When I was in college I took all the introductory-level, and many intermediate-level, science courses I could get into. Math through multivariate...
by Bruce | June 25, 2012 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
The one question I’m asked most frequently these days, in the aftermath of Dewey, is "Who’s next?" Even if I had an answer to that—which is, as one apocryphal job applicant replied when asked his greatest weakness, "for me to know and...
by Bruce | June 18, 2012 | Articles, Finance, Leadership, Recruiting, Strategy
Three years ago I published What Laterals Need to Know: A Modest Proposal, which essayed the thought that firms had an obligation to disclose certain information about the firm in advance to a prospective lateral partner. (I owe a debt of gratitude to my friend...
by Bruce | June 12, 2012 | Articles, Finance
We don’t write about legal doctrine very much—make that hardly ever—but every once in awhile a ruling, precedent, or line of cases strikes such a discordant note that it’s irresistible to question the rationale behind it. We come to praise Jewel or to bury...