by Bruce | August 31, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership
It has not typically been my practice at "Adam Smith, Esq." to decry the emergence of lucrative new practice specialties, but we now have a candidate: The explosion of stock option "backdating" investigations swamping 87, 112, or over 2,200...
by Bruce | August 28, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Using as a "hook" the dismissal of Tom Cruise from Paramount Pictures by Sumner Redstone, today’s NYT has a piece in the Business Section (also here for those of you not members of the obnoxious "Times Select"), "A Big Star May Not a...
by Bruce | August 21, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Eversheds has announced that it will be outsourcing almost 100 of its IT staff, "the bulk of its IT function," before the end of the year; those affected include the IT helpdesk, infrastructure teams, and IT training specialists. According to Legal...
by Bruce | August 20, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Today’s topic is funding partner contributions to the firm’s capital. Specifically, how does one fund those contributions? And since the question is empirical, we have a poll, to which I invite all familiar with their firm’s practice to...
by Bruce | August 13, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Law Technology News has a panel—although it actually seems to be a list of isolated commentators, not an interactive group discussion—talking about "how the emergence of business intelligence financial analysis software is going to affect the legal...
by Bruce | August 11, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
My good friend and colleague Patrick McKenna just released a new e-book, "The First 100 Days: Transitioning a New Managing Partner," which is available for free download and reading here, using the nifty "Nxtbook" publishing platform. ...
