by Bruce | January 14, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Is the US the "spiritual home" of legal technology? So Legal IT would have it. What, then, are current and future trends? (And I promise this is as close as I’ll come to the "tennis without a net" custom of New Year...
by Bruce | January 13, 2005 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Just Plain Interesting
OK, so this has nothing to do with law firms per se; it’s still fascinating (and we’re allowed to have recess even while school is in session). The FT has an analytic/speculative piece comparing the economic performance in the post-WWII period of (a)...
by Bruce | January 11, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
If you believe Hildebrandt, there were 47 law firm mergers of significance last year. (The editorial insertion "of significance" is my own, because while Hildebrandt says they limit their sample to law firms of five or more attorneys, the private...
by Bruce | January 5, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Marketing, Strategy
“I can’t think of a more important problem facing the profession,” Justice Breyer told Washington Lawyer, “than how to maintain a life for a young lawyer that will lead to satisfaction in his or her career, that will produce time for a family,...
by Bruce | January 3, 2005 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
The Lawyer (UK) is out with its Global 100 for 2004 and their gloss on the raw statistics, understandable given their perspective, highlights the different approaches to globalization taken by UK and US firms. One strategy to adopt vis-a-vis globalization...
by Bruce | December 31, 2004 | About the Site, Articles, Compensation, Finance, Just Plain Interesting, Strategy
I just finished reading Tombstone: A Lawyer’s Tales from the Takeover Decades (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 1992) by Lawrence Lederman, former chairman of the corporate practice at Milbank-Tweed (and still a partner there), who started his career as...