by Bruce | May 31, 2013 | Articles, Business Models, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Next in our series on a taxonomy of law firms are the capital-markets centric firms. If you think this moniker roughly translates to the classic New York white shoe elite, move to the head of the class. But, as much in our world at the start of the 21st Century,...
by Bruce | May 21, 2013 | Articles, Branding, Business Models, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
We humans like to put things in categories. And while we can get it plain wrong, or mix up two categories benignly or malignly, there’s no question our propensity for categorization—from friend or foe and food to poison, to Linnaeus, to the periodic table, to...
by Bruce | April 11, 2013 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
A few weeks ago I ran a column about “ReInvent Law,” an event in Silicon Valley in the first half of March, which presented some views about possible futures of BigLaw, most of which were, uh, challenging to those who think business as usual is a strategy....
by Bruce | April 9, 2013 | Articles, Business Models, Finance
I wasn’t going to write about the DLA over-billing allegations that came to light about 10 days ago because I didn’t think there was much to say except that they reflect badly on all of us, and on second thought that they reflect badly on all of us. But as...
by Bruce | April 1, 2013 | Articles, Business Models, Strategy
As the politicians say, “let your voice be heard.” Our good friends at Bloomberg Law plan to do a report on the results of our “ReInvent Law” survey (Is it Real or is it Memorex?) and yes, there will be video. So if you haven’t taken the...
by Bruce | March 19, 2013 | Articles, Business Models, Knowledge Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
For years, there was a prominent, and ultimately iconic, billboard in Times Square advertising the Memorex brand of recording tape, displaying an image of a stoner being blasted back in his chair by music coming from, presumably, a Memorex tape. Since recording tape...
