by Bruce | January 18, 2006 | About the Site, Articles, Finance, Technology strategy
I’m on the New York State Bar Association’s "Committee on Law Practice Management" and, for the record, I wanted to invite all and sundry who might be in the New York area to our annual meeting Thursday, January 26, 2006, from 1:00—5:00 pm...
by Bruce | January 18, 2006 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Just Plain Interesting, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Seventeen years before The Wealth of Nations (1776), Adam Smith published his Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759), nowadays a relatively neglected work which, to my mind, is nearly as astute, deserves far greater current recognition, and which not-incidentally puts pad...
by Bruce | January 16, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Indiana University School of Law at Bloomington—where my good friend Prof. William Henderson teaches—will be hosting a symposium on "The Globalization of the Legal Profession" Friday, April 6, 2006. I’m pleased to report that I will...
by Bruce | January 15, 2006 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Marketing, Strategy, Technology strategy
Last week I met the head of Bloomberg’s relatively new "Law" initiative, aimed at putting $1,500/month Bloomberg terminals on the desks of senior partners and general counsel. Before I describe what "Bloomberg Law" is about, I invite...
by Bruce | January 14, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Regular readers will know that I’m a firm subscriber to the Law of Unintended Consequences, which is also why I try to exercise consistency in analyzing "dynamic" and not just "static" effects of a proposal. Clarification: The...
by Bruce | January 12, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy
End of an era? Peter Cornell’s decision not to stand for re-election as global head of Clifford Chance certainly feels that way, although as we’ve argued before, his timing is impeccable. Now comes an interview with The Lawyer in which Cornell...