by Bruce | September 24, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance
If it’s in The Wall Street Journal, it has to matter (even if it doesn’t, if you follow my meaning). So it’s probably incumbent on us to offer, briefly, our thoughts on the front-page story this morning, "Hard Case: Job Market Wanes...
by Bruce | September 24, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Marketing, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
The annual "Adam Smith, Esq." Reader Survey is actively in progress, and I sincerely urge those of you who haven’t taken the two to three minutes it takes to complete it to do so right now. The point of the survey? Two-fold: I want to...
by Bruce | September 23, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Strategy
Over at LegalWeek, the big buzz this past week was all about the results of the annual survey they conduct of US firms operating in London which showed that 47% of respondents would consider a UK merger, up from 39% a year ago and just 29% in 2005. The story was also...
by Bruce | September 22, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization
Yesterday I was privileged to be able to speak to students at Harvard Law School in a talk I titled "Law Firm Finances (and Other Realities): Explained." My invitation came from the office of career services, and I accepted with gratitude and...
by Bruce | September 21, 2007 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Regular readers will know that I recently became Regional Director of the Managing Partners’ Forum for their first US foray, here in New York. This is how they describe their mission here: "The MPF is the world’s leading association of...
by Bruce | August 29, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Obeying the journalist’s trusty adage that one story is an anecdote but two stories are a trend, I’m here to report that today two stories were published, one on each side of the Pond, predicting that the US subprime » US mortgage market » US...
