by Bruce | September 20, 2012 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
For some time, I’ve been struggling with how to characterize in pithy short-hand what our industry has been experiencing since almost four years ago to the day when Lehman Bros. collapsed. How about Economy I and Economy II? I steal the phrase from the...
by Bruce | July 16, 2012 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
If you think your firm faces new strategic challenges in the wake of the Great Reset, imagine if you had been running a global bank in 2009, where the entire regulatory, interest rate, competitive, and customer environments had shifted abruptly and substantially...
by Bruce | June 25, 2012 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
The one question I’m asked most frequently these days, in the aftermath of Dewey, is "Who’s next?" Even if I had an answer to that—which is, as one apocryphal job applicant replied when asked his greatest weakness, "for me to know and...
by Bruce | January 27, 2012 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Lots of ink has been spilled lately about how M&A activity in the legal sector has picked up. Let’s stipulate that’s true. I for one believe it to be the case, and have been involved in more conversations along those lines in the last several...
by Bruce | January 27, 2012 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Lots of ink has been spilled lately about how M&A activity in the legal sector has picked up. Let’s stipulate that’s true. I for one believe it to be the case, and have been involved in more conversations along those lines in the last several...
by Bruce | January 27, 2012 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Lots of ink has been spilled lately about how M&A activity in the legal sector has picked up. Let’s stipulate that’s true. I for one believe it to be the case, and have been involved in more conversations along those lines in the last several...