by Bruce | February 5, 2010 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Fourteen years ago, Greenberg Traurig wasn’t in the AmLaw 100, and today it’s #10. Their CEO during this entire period–until he stepped down lastweek–was Cesar Alvarez, now age 62. When he became CEO of the firm, it was a “small but...
by Bruce | January 28, 2010 | Articles, Finance, Globalization
The final agenda for the “Business of Law” program, this coming Monday, February 1st, at LegalTech/New York has just been released. Please take a look here, and sign up here. Hope to see you there!
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...
