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...
by Bruce | January 5, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Marketing, Strategy
“I can’t think of a more important problem facing the profession,” Justice Breyer told Washington Lawyer, “than how to maintain a life for a young lawyer that will lead to satisfaction in his or her career, that will produce time for a family,...
by Bruce | January 4, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
In a happy confluence, two articles which are far stronger together than is either alone were pointed out to me today by two loyal readers. The first is The American Lawyer’s current "Management" column, about Customer Relationship Management...
by Bruce | January 3, 2005 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
The Lawyer (UK) is out with its Global 100 for 2004 and their gloss on the raw statistics, understandable given their perspective, highlights the different approaches to globalization taken by UK and US firms. One strategy to adopt vis-a-vis globalization...
