by Bruce | July 5, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Strategy
As regular readers know, I subscribe to the "people make the times" theory of history rather than the "times make the people" theory. Today’s lesson features Greg Jordan of Reed Smith, who recently engineered the merger of his firm with...
by Bruce | July 3, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
The Financial Times has a special report on "Innovative Lawyers 2006," which I commend to you essentially in its entirety. It’s thoroughly researched, involving soliciting submissions about "innovation" from the largest 200 firms in the...
by Bruce | June 30, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Guess the speaker (hint: London-based Managing Partner of a firm you’ve heard of): "Over a 10-year period the impact of rationalisation by industry sector has been dramatic. In the banking sector, 28 major institutions reduced to eight, in...
by Bruce | June 30, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management
OK, you’re going to have to trust me on this one: It’s a story about leadership taking off from an Everest expedition. What rescues it from almost certain death-by-cliche is both the high-quality source (Knowledge @ Wharton—now available as...
by Bruce | June 27, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Leadership is one of those inexhaustible topics about which one can never learn too much. The only problem with "learning" about it (at least by reading) is that 98% of what’s written about it is either: pluperfectly self-evident; the recitation...
by Bruce | June 24, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Strategy
"As global law firms begin to take on the size and reach of some of the world’s most notable multinationals, it is not unreasonable to assume that they should be run with a more commercial management structure." —Nigel Knowles, Joint CEO of DLA Piper...