by Bruce | July 10, 2008 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Richard Turnor, a partner in the Private Client Group at Allen & Overy, has penned for Managing Partner Magazine one of the more thoughtful pieces on the implications of the Legal Services Act in the UK. In particular, he asks the same question...
by Bruce | July 2, 2008 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management
Knowledge @ Wharton has an enlightening interview with William Weldon, CEO of Johnson + Johnson, on the challenges of leadership in a decentralized company. You may think the scale of J&J (120,000 employees, $61-billion in revenue, operations in dozens...
by Bruce | June 27, 2008 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Law Schools
Late last week Northwestern University Law School in Chicago announced an "Accelerated JD" program, compressing the same 86 credit hours earned by traditional three-year JD students over the course of six semesters into five semesters over two years. ...
by Bruce | June 21, 2008 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Last week Eversheds sponsored a conference in New York, primarily targeted at senior inhouse counsel, to discuss the current and future state of relations between law firms and inhouse departments. It was not pretty. About 90% of the attendees were the chief...
by Bruce | June 4, 2008 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
Chambers has a nice seasonal report it mails to subscribers, but it doesn’t provide it online. This is a pity (and, I predict, a practice with a finite half-life), but one of the articles in the issue I recently received (August 2007 for those of you following...
by Bruce | May 25, 2008 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Have you ever considered a completely different approach to strategic planning for your firm? An approach kind of like Toyota’s? Let me explain. There are traditional and classic strategic plans, which typically focus on practice group and geographic reach,...