by Bruce | September 15, 2010 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Partnership Structures
A few days ago The New York Times ran a story about how partners at Goldman Sachs “are made, and unmade,” with a fair amount of hyperbole about how the “secretive process” results in a small number of people being “chosen to receive this...
by Bruce | September 6, 2010 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, Strategy
A couple of weeks ago the always perspicacious and often contrarian Alex Novarese of LegalWeek used the occasion of his regular column to opine “Not so demanding–clients aren’t pushing the legal industry forward.” This was swiftly followed by...
by Bruce | August 28, 2010 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, M&A, Strategy
Hogan/Lovells Sonnenschein/Dentons Squire Sanders/Hammonds Proskauer/Berwins Question: Which of these four does not resemble the others? While you’re thinking about that… As LegalWeek described the Hogan/Lovells deal at the time: Aside from its...
by Bruce | August 22, 2010 | About the Site, Articles, Finance, Practice Group Management
On Tuesday, October 5, I’ll be facilitating a workshop here in New York at the AMA Executive Conference Center (1601 Broadway @ 48th Street, entrance on 48th) on What You Need to Know to Make Alternative Fee Arrangements Work. Richard Wyatt, co-head of...
by Bruce | August 21, 2010 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Strategy
Copious have been the articles about BigLaw partners decamping to start their own firms, but when the story migrates from the legal press (among which I count law.com (comprising The American Lawyer, the National Law Journal, etc.) The Lawyer, LegalWeek, the...
by Bruce | August 15, 2010 | About the Site, Articles, Globalization
I will be in Sao Paulo from September 21st–24th. Aside from a couple of speaking presentations, the primary goal of my trip will be to gather market intelligence on this intrinsically fascinating, deeply promising, and yet, at least to North American eyes,...