by janet stanton | August 3, 2025 | Articles, Branding, Client Relationships, Cultural Considerations, Marketing, Strategic Client Management
The following column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq., LLC–Bruce Firms are increasingly realizing the value of expanding relationships with their existing clients – be it involving more partners, additional practice areas, offices or other...
by Bruce | July 27, 2025 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Strategy
A few weeks ago a law land journalist asked us if we had any insights to offer about the above-average rate of expansion of law firms in a particular US metro market—which itself had been expanding at an above-market rate in business investment and population. This...
by Bruce | March 17, 2025 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
Here at Adam Smith, Esq. our robust, and for 20+ years inviolate, policy has been never to comment on current affairs. That ends today. We value no civic principle more highly than the primacy of the Rule of Law. And we have long had the luxury of being able to take...
by Bruce | February 26, 2025 | About the Site, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
With yours truly live on camera. Thanks to our “BLaw” friends for making this possible. Feel free to...
by Bruce | October 27, 2024 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Profiles of Individuals
The Nobel in Econ (a/k/a The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) for 2024 was awarded a few days ago to Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of MIT and to James Robinson of the University of Chicago. Here at Adam Smith, Esq., we try to...
by Bruce | October 15, 2024 | Articles, Business Models, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management
Comes word that Cleary Gottlieb is abandoning its increasingly rarefied “single tier” status and will begin naming Non Equity Partners “with immediate effect.” The intrepid Roy Strom of Bloomberg Law has the story: Cleary recognizes the “innovation and adaptation”...