by Bruce | April 27, 2018 | Articles, Business Models, Compensation, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Recruiting, Strategy
The compulsively readable James Stewart of The New York Times, who authors the weekly “Common Sense” column, which ranges widely across the business landscape, just published “$11 Million a Year for a Law Partner? Bidding War Grows at Top-Tier...
by Bruce | April 18, 2018 | Articles, Latin America, Leadership, Strategy
April is the cruelest Latin America month. This month has taken and is taking me to Santiago, Chile, Bogota, Colombia, and Sao Paulo, Brazil, traveling with Adam Smith, Esq.’s Director in Latin America, Antonio Leal Holguin. (Antonio splits his time between Santiago...
by Bruce | April 4, 2018 | Articles, Question of the Month
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by Bruce | March 26, 2018 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Practice Group Management
My favorite law in the whole world is the Law of Unintended Consequences. I suspect I’m so fond of it because it’s intrinsically perverse, it smotes the smartest people (maybe especially the smartest people), it’s of universal applicability, and it shouldn’t be that...
by Bruce | March 9, 2018 | Articles, Finance, Ineffable, Just Plain Interesting
John Adams notably wrote that “facts are stubborn things.” Words, however, can be fluid, flexible, and subject at times to arbitrary diktat. This last sense was famously expressed in Alice in Wonderland “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather...
by Bruce | March 6, 2018 | Articles, Finance, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Recruiting
Our good friends at Leopard Solutions have just come out with their annual recap of the law firm competitive landscape. If you don’t know Leopard, they have one of the most rigorously researched and scrupulously maintained databases there is to be had on a rich...
