by Bruce | May 19, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
I recently had the chance to interview Chris Marston, founder and CEO of Exemplar Law Partners, LLC, based in Boston, which has been open for business for all of about 90 days. To say that Chris is embarked on an ambitious attempt to rethink the practice of law,...
by Bruce | May 17, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
A loyal reader who has also become a friend writes that he has just re-read The American Lawyer’s lead story on the AmLaw 100 for 2006 and he has some questions (emphasis supplied): "Maybe I’m missing something, but the analysis seems flawed to me...
by Bruce | May 10, 2006 | Articles, Finance, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
In the world of technology, we’ve had the IBM mainframe era, the Microsoft PC era, and now we have…the Google web era? I’m not being facetious; well, CIO magazine is not being facetious, anyway, when it features this as its cover story. Add in...
by Bruce | May 4, 2006 | Articles, Finance, Partnership Structures, Strategy
A great deal of interest has been expressed in seeing a chart I created earlier but unfortunately at low resolution to enable it to fit in a browser window. The bar chart I’m referring to shows, for each and every firm, the extent to which its share of...
by Bruce | May 4, 2006 | Articles, Finance
Update to the AmLaw 100: An astute reader inquires, "Where is Schulte Roth?" All I can say is he has better eyesight than I. The webmaster at ALM Media inadvertently dropped them from the initial publication (Seyfarth Shaw appears twice, as ##66...
by Bruce | April 30, 2006 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Herewith our last two charts of the weekend. First, we have the cumulative "market share" (revenue) of the AmLaw 100 in rank order, showing that the top 28 or so firms have 50% of the market. Antitrust 101 tells us this is a very fragmented...