by Bruce | October 16, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Marketing, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management
What do the stories "Qualcomm Meets a Stern Judge" and "Banking Giant Pioneers Adviser League Table" have in common? The first is about Southern District of California U.S. Magistrate Judge Barbara Major coming out swinging against lawyers involved...
by Bruce | October 15, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
If you have a candidate for something that’s harder to achieve than large-scale organizational change—transformative change, not reforms or trim-tab adjustments—let me know. And yet, if your firm is to remain relevant in changing marketplaces,...
by Bruce | October 10, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures
From the TimesOnline (UK): "Peter Bloxham, the former head of restructuring at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, has lost his landmark £4.5 million age discrimination claim against the elite City law firm." This was a long-awaited and closely watched...
by Bruce | October 4, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Some of you may have seen the piece that ran in The Recorder about 10 days ago with the attention-getting headline, "In Salary Twist, Firm Pays More–and Less." (It was also picked up by the WSJ’s Law Blog, as the "Associate...
by Bruce | October 1, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
My firm does/does not have a mandatory retirement policy. I do/do not believe we should have one. Discuss. This comes up because of the near-even split in the industry between firms that have such policies and those that don ‘t—57% of all firms...
by Bruce | September 24, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance
If it’s in The Wall Street Journal, it has to matter (even if it doesn’t, if you follow my meaning). So it’s probably incumbent on us to offer, briefly, our thoughts on the front-page story this morning, "Hard Case: Job Market Wanes...