by Bruce | September 23, 2004 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, M&A
If you read only one article this quarter about mergers, this should be it. Not only is the author the former managing partner of Andersen Legal (until it imploded), before that he was managing partner of Clifford Chance. Sure, he comes from a UK-centric...
by Bruce | September 20, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, M&A, Strategy
"You ain’t seen nothing yet?" That’s our instinctive reaction to the news over the weekend that Boston’s Ropes & Gray may be about to acquire the venerable New York IP shop, Fish & Neave. Fish & Neave would be only...
by Bruce | September 17, 2004 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership
Starting this past summer, Associate Professor of Law William Henderson, of the Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington and I have been working behind the scenes on the "Law Firm Research Project." Prof. Henderson teaches a course called...
by Bruce | September 10, 2004 | Articles, Globalization
OK, let me be blunt: AmLaw 200 firms are simply too large and too complex enterprises to be managed with any less professionalism and strategic and financial acuity than equivalent-sized corporations. (These days, "equivalent-sized" means about...
by Bruce | August 27, 2004 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
Will 8% of all lawyer jobs be "outsourced" by 2015? So Forrester Research would have it. GE’s inhouse department claims to have already saved $2-million by putting eight lawyers and nine paralegals in Gurgaon, India. So the...
by Bruce | August 23, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures
Although this Hildebrandt article dates back to 2000, its premise that law firms of the future will migrate to the model of having full-fledged CEO’s as business leaders strikes me as visionary then and almost palpably the direction in which the world is headed...
