by Bruce | September 4, 2012 | Articles, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
If you believe the structural environment for BigLaw hasn’t fundamentally changed since 2008, the series I’m inaugurating today is not for you. (I would also have to ask, from a mystified perspective and in the kindest of ways, if you’re paying...
by Bruce | August 24, 2012 | Articles, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, Recruiting
Here’s a first for Adam Smith, Esq.: I’m issuing a challenge to US law firms, and to others throughout the English-speaking legal world. The challenge is to create and sustain, on our side of the pond and elsewhere, an initiative to rival what leading UK...
by Bruce | August 21, 2012 | Articles, Business Models, Leadership, Strategy
What does “The Cheesecake Factory” restaurant chain have to teach hospitals? According to Atul Gawande, writing in the current New Yorker, quite a lot. If you’re not familiar with Cheesecake Factory (I am only by reputation; I’ve never set foot...
by Bruce | August 19, 2012 | Articles, Law Schools, Recruiting
If you will or could be in the Bay Area the second week of November, I invite you to sign up for a day-long conference, The Brave New World of Entry-Level Recruiting, which we have put together. It’s actually “back by popular demand,” in that we...
by Bruce | August 9, 2012 | Articles, Business Models, Finance, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, Strategy
LegalWeek has released their annual “UK Top 50” ranking and it paints a rosy picture of strong revenue and profit growth in the teeth of global economic headwinds. Specifically: Total revenue of the Top 50 hit £12.96-billion (US$20.25-billion) This was a...
by Bruce | August 6, 2012 | Articles, Business Models, Leadership, Strategy
Not long ago, in their Soho offices, I had a chance to sit down with Mark Harris, CEO and Founder of Axiom, and a JD/BA grad of the University of Texas and former Ninth Circuit clerk and Davis Polk associate. To say that Mark has “views” on the state of...