by Bruce | December 10, 2013 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership
A few highlights from The American Lawyer’s just-released annual law firm leaders survey: Five years in to the Great Reset, the way clients buy legal services has settled into a new normal: In-house capabilities are expanding; Price/fee pressure is relentless;...
by Bruce | December 3, 2013 | Articles, Branding, Cultural Considerations, Marketing
Today we have a column by my partner in Adam Smith, Esq., Janet Stanton. Before joining Adam Smith, Esq., Janet had years of experience leading highly profitable teams of professionals at a global communications agency for clients such as Pfizer and the US Department...
by Bruce | November 20, 2013 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
One of the thorniest and most convoluted issues any leader has to deal with is telling senior-level underperformers that they’d be better off elsewhere. It calls on every skill in the manager’s trick-bag, from financial analysis to subtler cultural and...
by Bruce | November 13, 2013 | Articles, Business Models, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
The other week I had the chance to sit down with Ted Burke, outgoing chief executive and global managing partner of Freshfields. I’ve known Ted for years, consider him a friend, and with the announcement a month or so ago that he would be stepping down at...
by Bruce | October 25, 2013 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
The other week the redoubtable George Beaton launched what turned into as wide-ranging an online discussion as I can remember, under the title The rise and rise of the NewLaw business model, Since its publication, it has generated 65 comments over nearly three weeks...
by Bruce | October 23, 2013 | Articles, Branding, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Marketing, Practice Group Management
If you’re like me, you travel a lot. and you almost certainly have your own views of, and preferences among, the familiar roster of hotel brands, Hilton, Marriott, and Sheraton, but also at the high end Fairmont, Four Seasons, J.W. Marriott, and Ritz Carlton....