by Bruce | February 3, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Marketing, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Mark Chandler, a Senior Vice President and the Secretary and General Counsel of Cisco, gave a speech last week in San Diego at the Northwestern School of Law’s 34th Annual Securities Regulation Institute, which has been getting a fair amount of play online, and...
by Bruce | January 30, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
True story related to me this month by a friend who happened to be accompanying a senior and a junior partner through the library of their AmLaw 25 firm, with an eye towards figuring out if the space could be used better: Junior Partner (adamantly): ...
by Bruce | January 19, 2007 | Articles, Finance, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Technology strategy
I’m pleased to be able to be able to announce the winners of the 2007 Law Technology News Law Firm and Law Department Awards. If you’re going to be at LegalTech, I understand tables for the awards dinner are still available. (As a member...
by Bruce | January 16, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Have you asked your CIO lately whether he thinks IT at your firm is "aligned" with your business? Are you wondering what on earth I’m talking about? If you haven’t immersed yourself in IT management literature (I have), I need to explain that...
by Bruce | December 26, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Knowledge Management, Practice Group Management, Technology strategy
CIO Insight, in partnership with Baseline Magazine, is featuring a year-end review of nearly 230 case studies done over the past five years to distill out the "Top 10 Lessons for IT Project Success." Reading that piece in conjunction with "Top 10...
by Bruce | December 21, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy, Technology strategy
At the intersection of: technology globalization, and demographics we have, according to Robert Reich (Secretary of Labor under President Clinton and now Prof. of Public Policy at Berkeley), the challenge of "the economics of people" for the next few...