by Bruce | January 16, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Just Plain Interesting, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Which profession is most likely to suffer from stress, depression, and alcohol or substance abuse? That’s right—here’s lookin’ at you, kid. According to the FT, alcohol-related deaths in the UK among lawyers are double the rate of...
by Bruce | January 14, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Is the US the "spiritual home" of legal technology? So Legal IT would have it. What, then, are current and future trends? (And I promise this is as close as I’ll come to the "tennis without a net" custom of New Year...
by Bruce | January 13, 2005 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Just Plain Interesting
OK, so this has nothing to do with law firms per se; it’s still fascinating (and we’re allowed to have recess even while school is in session). The FT has an analytic/speculative piece comparing the economic performance in the post-WWII period of (a)...
by Bruce | January 12, 2005 | About the Site, Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Just Plain Interesting
The world has just learned that Robert Heilbroner, author of the justly famous and best-selling The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers, first published in 1953 and still in print, died here in Manhattan last week at age...
by Bruce | January 11, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
If you believe Hildebrandt, there were 47 law firm mergers of significance last year. (The editorial insertion "of significance" is my own, because while Hildebrandt says they limit their sample to law firms of five or more attorneys, the private...
by Bruce | January 10, 2005 | Articles, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
If you believe that the merger wave is far from cresting and that the future promises a landscape of perhaps two or three dozen truly international mega-firms with revenues north of $1-billion/year—but you’re currently at less than half that...