by Bruce | June 20, 2007 | Articles, Book Reviews, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
If you are fascinated as I am by the congeries of issues lying at the intersection of the "partnership ethos" and "corporate-like management," then you need to be familiar with the work of Dr. Laura Empson, as highlighted in Aric Press’s...
by Bruce | June 13, 2007 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Bloomberg News ran a story yesterday headlined "Slater & Gordon Lifts Curtain on Global Law Firms Going Public," which features excerpts from interviews with seven people, including yours truly, offering their views on what the implications might...
by Bruce | May 30, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
The most important factors in recruiting laterals are: (a) that they have a sizable, portable book of business; and (b) that they can start generating revenue from that book almost immediately after coming on board your firm. Right? Wrong, and wrong. I’ve...
by Bruce | May 26, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
As a manager, how do you balance the imperative of long-term strategic focus with the exigencies of day to day "incoming?" As a practitioner, how do you balance the demands of clients and deals with your well-intended resolutions to be a better...
by Bruce | May 23, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy
As noted in the WSJ Law Blog, on law.com’s legal blog watch , and by my good friend Larry Ribstein, the Australian law firm Slater & Gordon, a personal injury specialist firm with 21 branches in the country and over 20,000 clients, became the first...
by Bruce | May 21, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership
I have often wondered—perhaps you have as well—how "innovative" the practice of law really is. Certainly you’ve heard the view that a profession built on precedent is inherently allergic to innovation, but I believe there are...
