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. ...
by Bruce | August 3, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Although the jury may still well and truly be out on whether the consolidation wave among AmLaw firms: (a) is just getting started; (b) has already crested; (c) is the smartest thing firms could possibly do in our increasingly globalized and client-centric world; (d)...
by Bruce | July 20, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Technology strategy
Rarely do the stars align to find David Maister, Richard Susskind, and Kieran Flatt (Legal IT) all writing about the same thing at the same time, but when it so happens the opportunity to try to synthesize their thinking is too rich to pass up. The common topic du...
by Bruce | July 18, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
My friend Professor Bill Henderson of Indiana University Law School/Bloomington continues his fascinating empirical research into the legal profession with a new piece which analyzes, over the past 20 years, the geographic migration of large law firms and their...
by Bruce | July 5, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Strategy
As regular readers know, I subscribe to the "people make the times" theory of history rather than the "times make the people" theory. Today’s lesson features Greg Jordan of Reed Smith, who recently engineered the merger of his firm with...
by Bruce | July 3, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
The Financial Times has a special report on "Innovative Lawyers 2006," which I commend to you essentially in its entirety. It’s thoroughly researched, involving soliciting submissions about "innovation" from the largest 200 firms in the...