by Bruce | November 11, 2005 | About the Site, Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Marketing
Does your firm permit or prohibit lawyers and staff to blog? IBM’s unofficial "blogger in chief," Christopher Barger, condenses the benefits of blogging as follows: “This is a way to get our expertise out there, not by shoving it down people’s...
by Bruce | November 7, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Last Friday I attended a presentation at Jones-Day’s Washington, DC office, hosted in their top-floor conference room with a picture-postcard view of the Capitol dome. (I’m not kidding about the postcard view; CBS News has built a broadcast booth on...
by Bruce | November 2, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
And the winner is…"Modified Lockstep," closely followed by my own perverse favorite "there’s no such thing." Specifically, "lockstep with super-points" drew the most votes and "lockstep with geographic [or] practice...
by Bruce | November 1, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy
It comes as news to no one that mergers have recently been changing the legal landscape. Tony Williams and I share the view that we are witnessing the transformation of the industry’s fundamental structure, into a form that may endure for decades going...
by Bruce | October 31, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
I’ve writtten before about using blogs (and wikis and RSS) as knowledge management platforms in law firms, but for my Edge International presentation last week in London, I developed the following diagram which encapsulates my thinking on this: Three of a...
by Bruce | October 30, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
"Business intelligence" is the unfortunate (because misleading) term of art for profitability analysis using sophisticated software. The phrase "business intelligence" is too readily confused with "competitive intelligence," which...