by Bruce | June 11, 2008 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
In the course of two hour-plus long interviews over the past couple of weeks with Ray Bayley, co-founder of NovusLaw, I learned that everything I thought I knew about outsourcing was wrong. Or rather, that I hadn’t thought about outsourcing, really, at all. Read...
by Bruce | June 7, 2008 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, Profiles of Individuals, Strategy
Last week I had the opportunity to sit down with Allen Fagin, Chairman of Proskauer Rose. Allen is Columbia BA summa cum laude, and Harvard Law JD cum laude at the same time he earned an MPP from Harvard’s JFK School of Government. He’s worked at Proskauer...
by Bruce | June 4, 2008 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
Chambers has a nice seasonal report it mails to subscribers, but it doesn’t provide it online. This is a pity (and, I predict, a practice with a finite half-life), but one of the articles in the issue I recently received (August 2007 for those of you following...
by Bruce | May 28, 2008 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Globalization, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, Strategy
Does your firm have a "Chief Strategy Officer?" Thinking about it? Tried it and didn’t like it? Well, apropos the news a couple of weeks ago that Cravath has a first ever director of strategic planning, we thought it would be timely to review...
by Bruce | May 25, 2008 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Have you ever considered a completely different approach to strategic planning for your firm? An approach kind of like Toyota’s? Let me explain. There are traditional and classic strategic plans, which typically focus on practice group and geographic reach,...
by Bruce | May 22, 2008 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Eversheds is often up to interesting things. One of the most attention-getting, which was just renewed for another year, was Tyco’s decision to entrust work it had previously distributed among 250 law firms exclusively to Eversheds. Here’s the deal in a...
