by Bruce | June 21, 2008 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Last week Eversheds sponsored a conference in New York, primarily targeted at senior inhouse counsel, to discuss the current and future state of relations between law firms and inhouse departments. It was not pretty. About 90% of the attendees were the chief...
by Bruce | June 18, 2008 | Articles, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Over at LegalOnRamp there’s an interesting discussion underway about the extent to which GC’s do—or don’t—seek genuine innovation in the way BigLaw provides services. I’m taking the liberty of republishing it here (with...
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...
