by Bruce | December 28, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Forgive me for an extensive quote, but it sets the stage for all that’s to follow here. From the redoubtable McKinsey: "In today’s developed economies, the significant nuances in employment concern interactions: the searching, monitoring, and...
by Bruce | December 2, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy, Technology strategy
The American Lawyer is out with their annual survey of the AmLaw 200 managing partners (147 responded this year—summary Q&A results here), and while the news is almost overwhelmingly good (at least if you’re a partner in the AmLaw 200, and not a client...
by Bruce | November 21, 2005 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Justin North of Baker Robbins & Co. reports at Legal Week the results of an informal survey of CIO’s at major law firms asking them to assess what had changed over the past five years and what new developments would dominate the next five. The firm...
by Bruce | October 31, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
I’ve writtten before about using blogs (and wikis and RSS) as knowledge management platforms in law firms, but for my Edge International presentation last week in London, I developed the following diagram which encapsulates my thinking on this: Three of a...
by Bruce | September 15, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Knowledge Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Over at Exari, it’s a different Adam Smith. OK, I couldn’t resist, but this gives me an opportunity to briefly flag the importance of automating routine tasks which corporate counsel will increasingly resist paying for. Document assembly,...
by Bruce | August 31, 2005 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Strategy, Technology strategy
Joy London has a post quickly summarizing the current and projected future state of outsourcing legal services—in particular to India. While the future projections come from consultants with, the cynical might say, an interest in generating excitement...