by Bruce | January 27, 2010 | Articles, Finance, Leadership
If we were in Corporate Land, this would be the beginning of earnings reporting season, with the close of the customary calendar year-fiscal year for most of BigLaw. It’s too early to draw any statistically solid conclusions about what 2009 looked like overall,...
by Bruce | January 21, 2010 | About the Site, Articles, Finance, Globalization, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Speaking of interesting conferences in New York, on Monday, February 1st, from 1:00–5:00 pm, LexisNexis is hosting a “Business of Law” Symposium at the New York Hilton, Sixth Avenue @ 53rd Street, home of the annual LegalTech confab, which this flies...
by Bruce | January 11, 2010 | Articles, Finance, Leadership, M&A, Strategy
Before it’s too late to miss the brief window of opportunity for prognostications about the New Year, here’s one more. But first, let’s back up a bit. By almost anyone’s lights, 2009 was dreadful for our beloved industry, even appalling....
by Bruce | December 24, 2009 | Articles, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
Many have been the descriptors proposed for the period we’ve been living through since about the middle of 2007, but few strike me as more apt than “turbulence.” Why? Turbulence implies unconscious, or at least unintended, forces at work causing the...
by Bruce | December 17, 2009 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
In the 1980’s and 1990’s, one often heard the only semi-facetious phrase that “investment bankers are short-term greedy, but lawyers are long-term greedy.” One of the few exceptions to “short term greedy” on the I-Bank side of...
by Bruce | November 10, 2009 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
My recent column, What Makes Laterals Run?, has generated a most rewarding level of reader feedback, worthy of an update to the original column. Reactions have literally come from around the world, and, with the permission of my correspondents (all of whom expect...