by Bruce | March 22, 2012 | Articles, Branding, Business Models, Leadership, Marketing
From Allen & Overy’s 2011 Annual Review, which I happened to pick up in a visit to one of their offices last week, come some thoughtful essays you wouldn’t expect to find were it the usual firm’s “higher, faster, bigger, stronger, better,...
by Bruce | June 19, 2011 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Legion are the topics lawyers don’t talk about, and they could perhaps be accurately summarized as “anything we’d prefer not to talk about,” but primary among them is the strength or weakness of their own firms’ business models. So...
by Bruce | May 31, 2011 | Articles, Business Models, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, Recruiting, Strategy
Last week I wrote about innovation and how the early adopters can gain sustainable competitive advantage. This week is something of a follow-on, albeit one motivated more by recent personal events than frankly by brilliant editorial planning in advance. The variation...
by Bruce | May 18, 2011 | Articles, Business Models, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Alex Novarese, Editor in Chief of LegalWeek, has a smart column this week called “Rugged Individualism–a year of firm-specific achievement in the US.” Here are the highlights: Average revenue growth of the AmLaw 100 for 2010, as we’ve seen...
by Bruce | January 27, 2011 | Articles, Business Models, Finance, Innovative Managing Partners, Partnership Structures, Strategy
A few days ago I had a chance to catch up with my friend Alex Hamilton, now at radiant.law. (I knew Alex in his previous position as a Latham partner and wrote about his efforts behind Latham’s online “Capture” tool for clients.) I...
by Bruce | September 22, 2010 | Articles, Business Models, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, M&A, Marketing, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Attentive readers will know that I’m in Sao Paulo this week, where the talk of the town (well, at least the talk of The Bar) is this story which was reported yesterday morning in The Latin Lawyer:Any affiliations between international and Brazilian law firms...