by Bruce | April 27, 2018 | Articles, Business Models, Compensation, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Recruiting, Strategy
The compulsively readable James Stewart of The New York Times, who authors the weekly “Common Sense” column, which ranges widely across the business landscape, just published “$11 Million a Year for a Law Partner? Bidding War Grows at Top-Tier...
by Bruce | February 15, 2018 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Strategy
The following column is by Antonio Leal Holguin, Director, Adam Smith, Esq. Antonio is based in Santiago, Chile, and spearheads our Latin America practice. Mergers & Alliances: Proceed with Caution Five Steps for Latin American Firms In our recent Latin...
by Bruce | February 10, 2018 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Practice Group Management, Question of the Month
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by Bruce | October 2, 2017 | Articles, Branding, Business Models, Compensation, Finance, Law Schools, Leadership, Recruiting
Across the pond from New York our friend Alex Novarese, editor in chief of Legal Business, just published his commentary Associate pay smoke screen: it’s fooling no-one, which notes “the emergence over the last two years of suspiciously co-ordinated attempts by London...
by Bruce | June 2, 2017 | About the Site, Articles, Compensation
With this column we inaugurate a new and, we hope, long-running feature on Adam Smith, Esq.: A question of the month. Questions will vary, widely we suspect, and we invite readers’ suggestions for suitable future questions. We prefer them to be–and will...
by Bruce | March 28, 2017 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures
One of the things we do a lot of here—and seemingly more of in the past 24 months or so—is helping firms sort out, reform, amend, optimize, throw-away-and-start-fresh, their partnership compensation systems. And in every engagement of that sort, we try to keep two...