by Bruce | June 1, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
DLA Piper [Rudnick Gray Cary?—I’m quite confident they shortened the name, but their website doesn’t reflect it] is partnering with Harvard Business School to launch what is to my knowledge the second-of-its-kind lawyer "executive...
by Bruce | June 1, 2005 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Strategy, Technology strategy
My article at Law Technology News on Milbank’s outsourcing their wordprocessing to Chennai, India, is now up. How, you might well ask, could control-freak lawyers possibly cope with the news that their documents would not be processed under their...
by Bruce | May 31, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Strategy
"More Lawyers Flee Megafirms" is the intriguing headline from The National Law Journal, which sounds like an invitation to an article exploring the commonly-received-wisdom that the AmLaw 200 are consolidating–and debunking it. Guess again. The...
by Bruce | May 27, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Ian Davis, worldwide managing director of McKinsey, has a thoughtful piece over at The Economist attempting to mediate a truce between the evangelists of "Corporate Social Responsibility" and the Milton Friedman-ite school that "the business of business...
by Bruce | May 19, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, M&A, Strategy
Across the pond, we’re about to see an actual experiment that heretofore could only have been a thought experiment: Thanks to the "Clementi Commission," non-lawyer third parties will now be able to invest in law firms—most dramatically, law...
by Bruce | May 18, 2005 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Rarely, if ever, do I link to The Wall Street Journal, on the premise that the overwhelming majority of you have already seen it, so why point to what’s been in front of your face? But rules are made to be broken, so this morning I give you two WSJ...