by Bruce | March 8, 2014 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Strategy
Greetings from the right side of the pond: Impressions and observations from a wide-ranging series of conversations and meetings over the past few days. 1. Overall, the market here strikes me as a few years beyond—more evolved—than the US market. Why this is so I have...
by Bruce | March 3, 2014 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Recruiting
Loyal readers of Adam Smith, Esq. know that we think there’s much that can be learned for Law Land from other industries. Today’s column is in that vein, and our texts for today come from The New York Times and Above the Law. The first text is Tom...
by Bruce | February 27, 2014 | Articles, Leadership, Strategy
The following was published a month ago in LegalBusiness as part of their periodic “Dissent” series. The original appears here. Adam Smith, Esq’s Bruce MacEwen argues that short-termism and a lack of stewardship has come to define the modern law...
by Bruce | February 25, 2014 | Articles
On Friday, March 14th, here in New York at the Yale Club, Above the Law is putting on a lawyer blog conference, running from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. More information including the agenda and registration details are here, but a few of the highlights are: welcoming remarks...
by Bruce | February 14, 2014 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Recruiting, Strategy
When a large number of smart, accomplished, ambitious people seem to be behaving in a way that makes no rational sense, there has to be an irrational explanation. I’ve written and spoken before about my overall attitude towards aggressive lateral partner...
by Bruce | February 6, 2014 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
The first installment in this series presented the background and basic ramifications of the proposal now pending in Congress to require law firms and other professional service firms with annual revenue over $10-million to adopt the accrual accounting basis and not...