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 | June 23, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Sometimes we take our IT infrastructure for granted—too much so. In the last few weeks I’ve encountered a succession of stories where client relationships were strongly reinforced by astute deployment of IT assets. Call it the intersection of marketing and...
by Bruce | June 2, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
I’ve been following the CIO 100 awards for several years—they’re just out—and I’ve never seen so many law firms represented as this year. To wit: Bryan Cave Foley & Lardner Goodwin Procter King & Spalding, and K&L Gates...
by Bruce | April 3, 2007 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Eagle-eyed readers of my article reporting on my conversation with Ralph Baxter may have spotted where Ralph’s essay that I referred to was published: On Legal OnRamp. For the rest of you, if you haven’t heard of Legal OnRamp, I intend to...
by Bruce | April 2, 2007 | Articles, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Practice Group Management, Technology strategy
Heard of "Web 2.0?" Good; I thought so. Care to define it? Right; I also thought so. It can be a slippery concept, unusually prone to the "eye of the beholder" syndrome, but the uber -article about Web 2.0 was written by Tim...
by Bruce | February 21, 2007 | Articles, Knowledge Management, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
This morning I delivered the keynote at the Ark Group’s two-day conference starting here in New York, "Best Practices & Management Strategies for Legal Library & Information Service Centers." My keynote was titled "The Law Library of the...