by Bruce | March 23, 2012 | Articles, Business Models, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy
The reaction to my last column on the developments at Dewey has been as strong as to any piece I can remember writing in the near-decade Adam Smith, Esq. has been around. But for those of you who may be feeling overdosed on Dewey coverage, events are not letting the...
by Bruce | March 22, 2012 | Articles, Branding, Business Models, Leadership, Marketing
From Allen & Overy’s 2011 Annual Review, which I happened to pick up in a visit to one of their offices last week, come some thoughtful essays you wouldn’t expect to find were it the usual firm’s “higher, faster, bigger, stronger, better,...
by Bruce | March 16, 2012 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Two firms have this week received far more press attention than, one suspects, they counted on or quite know how to cope with: Our own industry’s Dewey LeBoeuf, and of course the iconic (good and bad sense) Goldman Sachs. Goldman Let’s take Goldman...
by Bruce | March 9, 2012 | Articles, Law Schools, Leadership, Recruiting
The National Law Journal just published a wealth of information, derived from NALP statistics, about which law schools send the greatest number of their graduates to NLJ 250 firms as first-year associates, and-this is the really fun part-how many graduates of those...
by Bruce | March 7, 2012 | Articles, Law Schools, Profiles of Individuals
Dogs bark. Birds sing. Snakes bite. Lawyers sue. Or is there more to it than that? I’m referring to the series of class action lawsuits being brought against law schools claiming they systematically misled students/applicants about such presumably material...
by Bruce | February 28, 2012 | Articles, Recruiting
Law Deans in Jail?? How often have you seen that as the title of an article on SSRN? But Morgan Cloud and George Shepherd, both professors at Emory Law, have perhaps risked career-ending injuries by publishing just such an article. Here’s the abstract: A most...