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Question of the Month: How to get lawyers to collaborate?

by Bruce | May 11, 2018 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Practice Group Management, Question of the Month

Take it away, readers! [poll id=”15″]

The Death of Lockstep?

by Bruce | May 7, 2018 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Recruiting, Strategy

Last week Jim Stewart of The New York Times published $11 Million a Year for a Law Partner? Bidding War Grows at Top-Tier Firms which was pegged to the news that Sandra Goldstein had left Cravath for Kirkland, and a reported compensation package of $11-million/year...

The Economics of Kirkland and Cravath

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...

Mergers & Alliances: Proceed with Caution

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...

February 2018 Question of the Month: Origination Is ____?

by Bruce | February 10, 2018 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Practice Group Management, Question of the Month

You know what to do!  Please use the comments box at the bottom for any additional thoughts or observations.   [poll id=”13″]  

An Iron Fist in the Velvet Glove of Associate Pay?

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...
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