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Build. Back. Better.

by Bruce | May 11, 2020 | About the Site, Articles, Business Models, Client Relationships, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Strategy

This column is by Bruce MacEwen and Janet Stanton What do we know now that we did not know in January?  Obviously, we know we’re in the grip of a global pandemic, which has precipitated a worldwide macroeconomic seizure comparable to the Great Depression, and that...

Build Back Better: In the Current Crisis, Your Firm Needs You to be Both a Manager & a Leader

by Bruce | April 30, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership

In the second part of this two-part series, Thomson Reuters’ Legal Executive Institute published the following article we wrote at their request.  We republish it here by their kind courtesy. In the first installment of this two-part series, we talked about the...

Build Back Better: Manager or Leader? Right Now, You Better Be Both

by Bruce | April 24, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Client Relationships, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership

The following column was published on Thomson Reuters’ Legal Executive Institute site on April 20, 2020.  We reprint it here by their courtesy. This 2-part series was written by Bruce MacEwen & Janet Stanton of Adam Smith, Esq. Over the past couple of weeks...

Build Back Better: Be a “Non-Anxious Presence”

by Bruce | April 21, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Strategy

The following column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs…” – Rudyard Kipling Ever wondered why clergy seem almost preternaturally calm? I certainly have. Were they born that way and, therefore,...

Who’s in Charge Here?

by Bruce | February 28, 2020 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, NewLaw, Strategy

Legal Business’s retrospective on the 2010s (“The Vision Thing”)  opens thus: The last decade emerged with the shockwaves of the banking crisis still making themselves felt on the profession. Having just made a series of job cuts in major markets the...

2020: The Year of Law Land Segmentation

by Bruce | January 15, 2020 | Articles, Branding, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Strategy

This article is co-authored by Bruce MacEwen, President, Janet Stanton, Partner and Antonio Leal Holguin, Director – Adam Smith, Esq. Lots of folks have their “Year of….” custom, often retrospectively, but here at Adam Smith, Esq., we’re more...
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