by Bruce | January 27, 2012 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Lots of ink has been spilled lately about how M&A activity in the legal sector has picked up. Let’s stipulate that’s true. I for one believe it to be the case, and have been involved in more conversations along those lines in the last several...
by Bruce | January 14, 2012 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management
This is not a piece about “unknown unknowns.” No, it’s a piece about something that most of us in any position of authority secretly fear we’re doing. Actually, there are two groups of senior people who probably do n’t secretly fear...
by Bruce | December 6, 2011 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Recruiting, Strategy
And I respond here (transcript) and here (podcast).Among the highlights:[Me:[ One of the things that started to happen before the Great Recession was, for example, I saw this most clearly in the rise of starting salaries to a $160,000 in New York and major...
by Bruce | November 16, 2011 | Articles, Cultural Considerations
If you’re not familiar with Will Meyerhofer, a Harvard BA/NYU JD, former Sullivan & Cromwell associate, and now a psychotherapist in private practice in Battery Park City, I’m here to tell you you should be. Will writes at The People’s...
by Bruce | November 4, 2011 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Profiles of Individuals
I don’t ordinarily write about ethical transgressions or semi-sordid tales of malfeasance among people more often found on the New York Post’s Page 6 than in the Times or the Journal, but here we have a cautionary tale that, I fear, may hold a slightly...
by Bruce | September 5, 2011 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Recruiting
You might be interested in my reflections on some of the things we can tell from the release of The American Lawyer’s “midlevel associate satisfaction survey.”I actually published that column over at our “sister site,” JD Match/Views....