by Bruce | June 2, 2005 | About the Site, Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, M&A, Marketing, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Technology strategy
The long-awaited results (speaking for myself, at least) of the famous first-ever "Adam Smith, Esq." Reader Survey are now in, and I hasten to share them with you, dear reader, as audience participation was extremely strong, and gratifying. My...
by Bruce | June 1, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
DLA Piper [Rudnick Gray Cary?—I’m quite confident they shortened the name, but their website doesn’t reflect it] is partnering with Harvard Business School to launch what is to my knowledge the second-of-its-kind lawyer "executive...
by Bruce | June 1, 2005 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Strategy, Technology strategy
My article at Law Technology News on Milbank’s outsourcing their wordprocessing to Chennai, India, is now up. How, you might well ask, could control-freak lawyers possibly cope with the news that their documents would not be processed under their...
by Bruce | May 31, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Strategy
"More Lawyers Flee Megafirms" is the intriguing headline from The National Law Journal, which sounds like an invitation to an article exploring the commonly-received-wisdom that the AmLaw 200 are consolidating–and debunking it. Guess again. The...
by Bruce | May 27, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Ian Davis, worldwide managing director of McKinsey, has a thoughtful piece over at The Economist attempting to mediate a truce between the evangelists of "Corporate Social Responsibility" and the Milton Friedman-ite school that "the business of business...
by Bruce | May 23, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Professor Carley, as well as a frequent correspondent who I will identify only as the director of KM at an AmLaw 100 firm, have come through. First, Professor Carley provided a working paper on the Enron email database, and told me that under the auspices of her...