by Bruce | November 12, 2004 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Technology strategy
A theme of this blog is that the "default" approach to issues in law firm management should be that much can be learned from the enormous literature on corporate management. In other words, barring unusual circumstances unique to the profession (which...
by Bruce | November 11, 2004 | Articles, Technology strategy
Just four weeks left to nominate the best technology users in the legal profession for Law Technology News’s Annual Awards, in these categories: IT Director Champion of Technology Most Innovative use of Technology by a Law Firm Most Innovative use of Technology...
by Bruce | November 10, 2004 | Articles, Ineffable
Back from the truly lovely Midwest oasis of Bloomington, Indiana (approx. 40 miles south of Indianapolis), where I had the pleasure of guest-lecturing to a group of 30 or so smart, inquisitive, and polite-but-challenging 2L’s and 3L’s. Bloomington,...
by Bruce | November 8, 2004 | Articles, Ineffable
I look forward with delight to being invited to guest-lecture at Indiana University School of Law/Bloomington in Prof. William Henderson’s "The Law Firm as a Business Organization" course. I fly out there early tomorrow morning. Full report when...
by Bruce | November 8, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy
"The Industrialization of the Law Firm" is the ambitious, but fair, title of a piece by A. Harrison Barnes, Esq., founder of BCG Search. His conclusion?: "Today’s law firm environment is, in a sense, now being controlled by Adam...
by Bruce | November 6, 2004 | Articles, Technology strategy
My good friend and crack wordsmith Michael Clark of EDDix LLC is striving to break new ground in the world of publishing/distribution, by charging a pretty penny (>$2,000) for a conventional copy of his new book covering the landscape of Electronic Data Discovery,...