by Bruce | May 28, 2013 | Articles, Compensation, Leadership, Practice Group Management
Following is the next in Richard Rapp’s series of articles on compensation. – Bruce Economists and evolutionary biologists share an interest in a model of incentives known as “the prisoner’s dilemma.” It is a game for two...
by Bruce | May 18, 2013 | Articles, Compensation, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Herewith the second article by Richard Rapp. Thanks, Richard!—Bruce. Law firm managers who are planning large-scale, hubristic expansion-by-acquisition should study the Dewey LeBoeuf morality play very closely. The rest of us should not. It’s a...
by Bruce | May 3, 2013 | Articles, Compensation, Finance
This is the first column written by our new colleague here at Adam Smith, Esq., Richard Rapp. Trust me, it won’t be the last–Bruce. I enjoyed reading the recent exchange here (“What’s Your Client Mix,” April 9, 2013) triggered by...
by Bruce | April 30, 2013 | About the Site, Articles, Compensation, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Recruiting, Strategy
It is with great personal and professional pleasure that we announce Richard Rapp is joining Adam Smith, Esq. as Senior Advisor. Those of you who have learned even a little about the consulting side of Adam Smith, Esq. know that we have remained small by choice,...
by Bruce | March 27, 2013 | Articles, Compensation, Leadership, Recruiting, Strategy
I suspected as much all along. I’m referring to the recent admirably data-intensive study of lateral partner movement in London compiled and written by Mark Brandon of Motive Legal and published in The Lawyer a few days ago. This is must reading for anyone...
by Bruce | March 15, 2013 | Articles, Compensation, Profiles of Individuals
As most readers know, one of the irregular—but always popular—kinds of columns we publish are in the form of interviews with people who pass our rigorous 10-point test are intrinsically interesting. Recently I had the luck to get to know Herb Thomas, who immediately...
