by Bruce | August 2, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Practice Group Management, Technology strategy
Does this sound like you?: "While technical countermeasures do a passable job of blocking spam and phishing attacks from beyond the firewall, the sheer volume of E-mail from legitimate senders has companies looking for ways to communicate through the clutter....
by Bruce | July 28, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Should law firms ever be in businesses other than practicing law? And does the answer to that turn on legal ethics, or on microeconomics, or both? The question is no longer academic. In "All in One Law Firms," the Financial Times reports...
by Bruce | July 25, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
How do you make decisions? By that I mean, when facing a material strategic (a/k/a “big”) decision, who do you involve and what is the process you use to decide? (Don’t pretend to blanche at the word “process”—lawyers are all about...
by Bruce | July 24, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Why are law firms partnerships? After all, across the rest of the economy, corporations are more than dominant; they own the landscape. Ever seen a trucking company, a retail chain, or even your friendly local locksmith shop organized as a partnership? ...
by Bruce | July 22, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Just Plain Interesting, Strategy
It takes little discernment to conclude that "Adam Smith, Esq." could be more appropriately subtitled "…an inquiry into the economics of [Big] law firms."* Not only would this conclusion be correct, but since I know for a fact that you,...
by Bruce | July 20, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Wilmer Cutler, in conjunction with Harvard Business School, and Chicago’s Seyfarth Show, with Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, have now followed Reed Smith and DLA Piper in initiating formal long-term collaborative efforts to train their...