by Bruce | November 25, 2013 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership
The other night I was fortunate enough to be invited to attend the FT’s Innovative Lawyers 2013 (US) awards ceremony at the New York Public Library’s main Fifth Avenue and 42nd branch. (The report was published here the next day in the paper, and you can...
by Bruce | November 14, 2013 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
The always intrepid Lee Pacchia of Bloomberg Law invited me to come by and talk about the quarterly reports on the State of BigLaw just released by Citi Private Bank and Wells Fargo’s law group. We also got off on the topic of whether lawyers can really be...
by Bruce | November 13, 2013 | Articles, Business Models, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
The other week I had the chance to sit down with Ted Burke, outgoing chief executive and global managing partner of Freshfields. I’ve known Ted for years, consider him a friend, and with the announcement a month or so ago that he would be stepping down at...
by Bruce | October 25, 2013 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
The other week the redoubtable George Beaton launched what turned into as wide-ranging an online discussion as I can remember, under the title The rise and rise of the NewLaw business model, Since its publication, it has generated 65 comments over nearly three weeks...
by Bruce | October 13, 2013 | Articles, Business Models, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Don’t worry; this is not going to be about what’s “trending on Twitter,” which I used to think was merely amusing but which I’m coming to believe is borderline evil. (Topic for another day, or on second thought, a topic for never.) No,...
by Bruce | August 30, 2013 | Articles, Business Models, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Recruiting
Sometimes large changes break across the landscape like summer afternoon thunderstorms, seemingly coming from nowhere and definitely getting everyone’s attention: And sometimes they steadily and stealthily accumulate over time, perhaps without anyone ever...
