by Bruce | April 4, 2005 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
The American Lawyer’s cover story this month is about how the corporate/transactional deal market "is back," five years after it went away. Equity offerings nearly tripled in value in 2004 (to $43-billion, famously including Google) and an...
by Bruce | April 1, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
A new blog, Legal Ethics + Legal Technology, put together by Ben Cowgill, has invited guest authors, including me, to post their thoughts this week, on issues related to professional ethics. While I have often said that "Adam Smith, Esq." is all about...
by Bruce | April 1, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
This Just In: Results of "Savvy Blawgers" Query #2 The second query to this august group concerned the future of the billable hour. My original email to the Savvy Blawgers reads in pertinent part: You should also know that I’m going to be a...
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...
