by Bruce | August 24, 2020 | Articles, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
Thomson Reuters’ Legal Executive Institute was kind enough to ask us to undertake some analysis of the recently released AmLaw 200 for 2020. This is our third and final installment in that series, which we publish with their generous permission. (Their lightly...
by Bruce | August 13, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy, Technology strategy
If one is looking for an image to encapsulate the Covid-19 “Slingshot” phenomenon, you will find an embarrassment of riches. But this has to be one of our favorites. In 8 weeks–a heartbeat in a human lifetime–the penetration of online retail...
by Bruce | August 4, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Practice Group Management
Perhaps I should have said upfront in Part 1, but it’s never too late: In this series I’m discussing the office after humanity has re-emerged from the global isolation ward this dratted pox has lowered on us all. I am not discussing, and have no interest in,...
by Bruce | July 31, 2020 | Articles, Business Models, Finance, Strategy
Our good friends at Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute asked us to offer some reflections on the recently released AmLaw 200 for 2020. Our first, “How Not to Think About the AmLaw 200,” was published in late June and here, republished by their...
by Bruce | July 26, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
The world is well into the greatest “natural experiment” in WFH ever seen. No one glided into this; it came as abruptly as an on-off switch. I’m sure the experience at Adam Smith, Esq. was fairly typical: One week (spanning the end of February and the start of...
by Bruce | July 10, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Practice Group Management, Recruiting
We will be participants on a webinar about the inefficiencies in traditional practices in entry-level recruiting and how firms might “build back better” in that area in the new reality. In particular, we will be discussing more data-driven approaches to...
