by Bruce | December 14, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Knowledge Management, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Among the numerous obstacles to an effective and comprehensive Knowledge Management program are (a) lawyers’ reluctance—actually, make that absolute refusal—to spend 10 seconds in the active "care and feeding" of the KM system; and (b) the...
by Bruce | December 6, 2006 | About the Site, Articles, Globalization, Just Plain Interesting, Knowledge Management, Technology strategy
As the legal blogosphere goes from childhood to adolescence to (eventually) full-throated adulthood, I’ve enjoyed not just contributing my own small efforts to that process, but also being able to be an armchair observer of other developments having nothing...
by Bruce | December 2, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Periodically I’m asked whether the legal industry could steal a page from the playbook of other industries that it might resemble, either for inspiration and innovation, or for cautionary, clarifying lessons. If the question relates to what economists call...
by Bruce | November 22, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, M&A, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Mergers, globalization, consolidation: I’ve heard all about it. Time to tell me something new. Is that your feeling? Then let’s talk about post-merger leadership, and what you could actually do to make a difference if the seemingly-inevitable comes to...
by Bruce | November 19, 2006 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Today we visit the prosaic topic of conflicts-checking. I’ve come to believe it’s not so prosaic after all. Consider: The highly-publicized referral to the UK’s Law Society Regulation Board of two senior Freshfields partners, announced last...
by Bruce | November 9, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Within 24 hours of each other, both The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times wrote pieces on "then and now" re the dot-com bubble. Surely unintentional as it was, I think they provide nice counterpoints to each other, and also give us a small...