by Bruce | September 15, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Knowledge Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Over at Exari, it’s a different Adam Smith. OK, I couldn’t resist, but this gives me an opportunity to briefly flag the importance of automating routine tasks which corporate counsel will increasingly resist paying for. Document assembly,...
by Bruce | September 13, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
With all the attention we pay to strategy, globalization, M&A and consolidation, practice group and knowledge management, and other issues in firm management on the more or less empyrean plane, it’s time for a word about associates. For starters, associates...
by Bruce | September 12, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Strategy
David Boies, the Adelphia bankruptcy, and "Amici LLC," Chapter 2: The Wall Street Journal reports this morning that Max Shulman, a senior partner at Cravath, representing Deloitte & Touche LLP, has written to the judge presiding over the Adelphia...
by Bruce | September 8, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, M&A, Strategy
The Lawyer is out with their annual "UK 100" (for 2005), and it shows that while the Magic Circle is pulling away ("going galactic," as they gaily put it), the interesting action is in what they newly dub the "Silver Circle," or the...
by Bruce | September 7, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Can you ever think too much about leadership? Not in my book. But then, I’m firmly in the camp of "people make history" rather than "history makes people." Or, as The New York Times put it this morning apropos the 10th...
by Bruce | September 4, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, M&A, Strategy
You are probably as unfamiliar with the UK insurance-defense firm Ricksons as was I before I read this piece, but this case study, written by the Ricksons managing partner, Tony Hughes, is a useful tool to explore lessons in change management. And, the beauty of...