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...
by Bruce | April 29, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Here at "Adam Smith, Esq.," the release of the annual AmLaw 100 feels a bit like Super Bowl weekend; there are lots of stories to report. Fortunately, here in virtual space, we have unlimited newsprint and ink. Here are a few more ways to slice the...
by Bruce | April 29, 2006 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Today we have the AmLaw 100 ranked by Revenue per Lawyer, one of my favorite metrics. Why one of my favorites? First of all, it provides insight into the extent to which a firm actually achieves the Holy Grail sought by all—to do a larger proportion...
