by Bruce | July 25, 2021 | Articles, Build Back Better, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership
We’ve written that leaving the office was trivial, at least in retrospect–“fire alarm’s going off, everyone leave the building”–but that returning is going to pose one of the most complex...
by Bruce | July 9, 2021 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, M&A, Technology strategy
Scorching new data out on the volume of deal-making over the last 12 months or so, from Refinitiv courtesy of The Wall Street Journal (“Cash-laden companies are on an M&A Spree”). Ready for some once-in-a-lifetime-career numbers?: In the first six...
by Bruce | May 24, 2021 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
For the armchair economists in the crowd, the geopolitically curious, or faithful leaders of law firms wondering whether they should plant a, or more, flags abroad, how would you instinctively answer that question? Does the US sell more legal services abroad than it...
by Bruce | May 12, 2021 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
We find ourselves from time to time wondering about many things: Will Moore’s Law ever hit a wall? When will the last print edition of The New York Times be published? Could Lord General Cornwallis have escaped the French/American pincer movement at Yorktown and...
by Bruce | April 27, 2021 | Articles, Book Reviews, Compensation, Cultural Considerations
Across my desk a few weeks ago came BigLaw: Money & Meaning in the Modern Law Firm by Mitt Regan and Lisa Rohrer (U. Chicago Press: 2021). (I have known Mitt, a law Professor at Georgetown, for over a decade, and consider him a friend, as well as one of the most...
by Bruce | March 7, 2021 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Ineffable, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
THERE was never any thing by the wit of man so well devised, or so surely established, which (in continuance of time) hath not been corrupted: as (emong other thinges) it may plainly appere by the common prayers in the Churche, commonlye called divine service. —The...
