by Bruce | July 9, 2012 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, Strategy
Let me line up side by side for you some very current perspectives on the larger issues facing BigLaw. The impressively thoughtful (and articulate) Dr.. George Beaton wrote less than a month ago, in Without re-invention firms’ profits will plunge in line with...
by Bruce | December 5, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Innovative Managing Partners, Practice Group Management, Strategy
I doubt many of you, gentle readers, follow David Carr, who writes the Media Equation column for the Monday Business section of The New York Times, but I commend him to you as an enlightened, thoughtful, and experienced observer at the intersection of media,...
by Bruce | November 11, 2011 | Articles, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, Strategy
Last week I had the privilege of attending the unveiling of the Financial Times US Innovative Lawyers 2011 awards here in town. This is an award they’ve been doing in the UK for many years, and I was glad to see it imported across the pond; this was Year 2 of...
by Bruce | July 11, 2011 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Innovative Managing Partners, Recruiting
I suppose when we’re quoted in The Wall Street Journal it’s worth writing about. So it was with a combination of pleasure and surprise that I opened this morning’s browser tabs to find this piece talking about law schools beginning to...
by Bruce | May 31, 2011 | Articles, Business Models, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, Recruiting, Strategy
Last week I wrote about innovation and how the early adopters can gain sustainable competitive advantage. This week is something of a follow-on, albeit one motivated more by recent personal events than frankly by brilliant editorial planning in advance. The variation...
by Bruce | March 10, 2011 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership
A couple of weeks ago I learned that the legal department of Kraft Foods issued its “Adam Smith” award, for innovation in the delivery of legal services, to Clifford Chance, and Kraft intends it to be an annual award. I was curious to learn more. The first...
