by Bruce | July 27, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, Strategy
I’m pleased to announce that I’m now the US director of the Strategy Panel of the UK-based Managing Partners’ Forum. My co-directors are Andrew Hedley of Hedley Consulting (London) and Rob Millard of Edge International (Bahamas). What...
by Bruce | July 10, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy, Technology strategy
The FT is out with its second annual "Innovative Lawyers" Survey and much has changed since I reported on the original survey a year ago. Primarily, the survey is far more ambitious in scope this year: "The 2006 report covered only UK lawyers...
by Bruce | April 17, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Profiles of Individuals, Strategy
In 1999, Reed Smith’s 610 lawyers generated $168-million in revenue, from 14 offices in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states. At the start of 2007, its 1,500 lawyers are on track to do $900-million in revenue, from 21 offices across the US from California to...
by Bruce | April 16, 2007 | Articles, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
I just learned the results of a survey distributed last month by Edge International asking law firm leaders two fascinating questions: Which law firm Managing Partner/Chair/CEO do you admire most for their leadership? [Outside your own firm.] Why does that individual...
by Bruce | March 29, 2007 | Articles, Globalization, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Profiles of Individuals, Strategy
"A freezing rain was falling one March afternoon in Tarrytown, New York, and I was thinking about frogs." Does that sound like the proper introduction for an AmLaw 30 Firm Chair to use for an article with the theme, as he says farther on, that "I expect...
by Bruce | February 14, 2007 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Profiles of Individuals, Strategy
Last month I had a chance to sit down with Pete Kalis, Chairman and Global Managing Partner of K&L Gates, for nearly two hours—and don’t think for a moment that we even scratched the surface of all we wanted to discuss. The pretext for our meeting was...
