by Bruce | March 31, 2005 | About the Site, Articles, Leadership, Marketing, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
First: Thanks to my (old) good friends at American Lawyer Media (particularly the always entertaining Monica Bay, expert on all things related to legal technology), I’ll be blogger-in-residence at the Chief Technology Officer/Chief Information Officer...
by Bruce | March 30, 2005 | About the Site, Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Marketing, Strategy
In "Do You Blog?," the cover story in this month’s Washington Lawyer, reporter Sarah Kellogg provides a comprehensive recap and overview of how the legal blogosphere has evolved since its earliest days. Not incidentally, she concludes with a...
by Bruce | March 29, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Strategy, Technology strategy
It’s not your imagination: Mega-mergers in corporate-land are on the upswing. According to The Wall Street Journal, the last five months have seen more than a dozen deals valued at more than $10-billion. And the result is that "investors...
by Bruce | March 26, 2005 | Articles, Strategy
What’s your model for hiring summer associates? Are you satisfied with it? If not, how about trying this instead: Model a challenge for them on the hit reality TV show "The Apprentice;" Schedule call-backs on the spot; Send "very...
by Bruce | March 23, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
"From pace-setter to basket case in the United States?" Shall we all guess what firm got stuck with that donkey-tail over at law.com? Alas, of course, it was Clifford-Chance. The questions du jour are (1) what went wrong? (not so we can...
by Bruce | March 23, 2005 | Articles, Leadership
The Indiana Unversity School of Law—Bloomington is in the process of streamlining its JD/MBA program with the Kelley School of Business. The overall goal is to encourage more students—whether they "start" on the law-school side or the...