by Bruce | November 2, 2012 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
The first eight columns in this series, to state the obvious, have been all about the challenges facing BigLaw, which I believe may be mortal to some firms who don’t or can’t respond effectively. The new landscape reflects trends bubbling up under the...
by Bruce | October 31, 2012 | About the Site, Articles
Actually, we never went anywhere, but Hurricane Sandy “delivered a crippling blow” (NY Times) to New York City and visited devastation on much of the northeastern US from the Carolinas north to New England and west to Ohio. Fortunately, the building I...
by Bruce | October 28, 2012 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Marketing, Strategy, Technology strategy
If you’ve traveled this far in this series, you may be wondering what I think you actually ought to do. Recognizing that diagnosis is eaiser than prescription, the remaininig installments—starting with this one—will try to address that. One other caveat: Not all...
by Bruce | October 21, 2012 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
At the end of our last piece, I asked aloud whether we as lawyers are intellectually and emotionally capable of adapting to the new market landscape, suggested that adapting would require experimentation and—yes—failure, and noted that countries and industries that...
by Bruce | October 19, 2012 | Articles, Just Plain Interesting, Law Schools, Recruiting, Technology strategy
On Monday the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science was awarded to Lloyd Shapley and Al Roth, for their work on market design and matching theory, which relate to how individuals and firms find and select one another in areas from school choice to jobs to...
by Bruce | October 17, 2012 | Articles, Law Schools, Recruiting
We’re pleased to be sponsoring a conference on entry-level recruiting: San Francisco Tuesday 13 November 2012 9:00 am – 4:15 pm AMA Executive Conference Center (Union Square) This is actually an updated version of a conference we did in New York this past...
