by Bruce | December 17, 2004 | About the Site, Articles
Reader participation alert! The question du jour which I’m posing to all of you, dear readers, is: Should I change the white-text-on-black-background look of the site? Here’s the story: When I first launched "Adam Smith, Esq.," I was...
by Bruce | December 16, 2004 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Say "Clementi Commission" on this side of the Atlantic and draw blank stares; say it on the other side and it is safe to say you will launch an immediate fray. The Commission has proposed, and the government has pledged to support, legislation that will...
by Bruce | December 13, 2004 | Articles, Just Plain Interesting, Knowledge Management, Technology strategy
The estimable Ron Friedman, who’s been covering legal technology since 1989, has done a nice recap of the past 25 years of legal technology for The American Lawyer. Two messages here: No matter how much you may bitch and moan at technology today,...
by Bruce | December 12, 2004 | About the Site, Articles
In case you don’t see Law Technology News regularly, their year-end issue features, at pg. 24 in the "real" issue, my article on "How I Came to (Love) Blogging," thanks to the capable and gentle stewardship of that editorial ball of...
by Bruce | December 11, 2004 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Marketing
Half full or half empty? That’s my somewhat non-plussed reaction to the National Law Journal’s release of its annual hourly billing rates update. Of the 110 firms responding to the questionaire, 88 reported increases in partners’...
by Bruce | December 10, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Just how "corporate" is the management model at sophisticated firms? While there may be superficial similarities of structure in an increasing number of firms, Legal Week posits that if lawyers simply mimic a corporate form of management without...