by Bruce | February 18, 2011 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Strategy
Tim Bratton, the general counsel of the Financial Times, has an interesting perspective on DLA Piper’s recently announced plan to revamp its client base. Here’s what that entails: All partners were given details of the framework last month as part of a bid...
by Bruce | February 1, 2011 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Practice Group Management
Here on Adam Smith, Esq., we’ve never devoted a lot of ink to work/life balance issues or, for that matter, to lawyers’ happiness with their jobs, stress levels, rates of depression/alcohol abuse/divorce (all of which, as is well-known, we over-index on),...
by Bruce | January 27, 2011 | Articles, Business Models, Finance, Innovative Managing Partners, Partnership Structures, Strategy
A few days ago I had a chance to catch up with my friend Alex Hamilton, now at radiant.law. (I knew Alex in his previous position as a Latham partner and wrote about his efforts behind Latham’s online “Capture” tool for clients.) I...
by Bruce | January 21, 2011 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
“With all respect, I think that’s the wrong question. There’s always new stuff out there, and most of it’s not very good. Rather than looking for the next musing, it’s probably better to be thorough about what we know is true and make...
by Bruce | January 6, 2011 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management
This is a tale of how this is not your father’s recession. About a year ago I read Reinhart and Rogoff’s This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, which ably–and depressingly–provides chapter and verse on how the aftermath of...
by Bruce | October 20, 2010 | Articles, Finance
We’re working with LexisNexis on a series of panels around the country. Here’s the next one, which will be: In Los Angeles Wednesdary, November 10 8 — 11 am Pacific time At the Sofitel, LA (Google Mapped here) The following is from the marketing...
