by Bruce | February 23, 2015 | Articles, Just Plain Interesting, Marketing, Technology strategy
If you haven’t yet heard about Above the Law’s “Converge” conference coming up here in NYC on Wednesday, March 18th, you’re about to. It’s a full-day conference at the marvelous University Club (Fifth @ 54th, McKim, Mead and White,...
by Bruce | December 3, 2014 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Technology strategy
Nearly four years have passed since IBM’s Watson beat two human beings at Jeopardy, and not just any two human beings: Ken Jennings, record-holder for longest winning streak (74 appearances) and Brad Rudder, largest single money-winner ($3.25-million). As...
by Bruce | October 8, 2014 | Articles, Technology strategy
I’m often asked—on a panel last month in Europe and on a panel later this month right here in New York at the Law Firm COO & CFO Forum, for example—what I think about “disruption” in the legal industry. Bypassing the obversation that it’s a...
by Bruce | September 10, 2014 | Articles, Business Models, Technology strategy
This column is by our Senior Adviser, Doug Caddell: A few weeks ago I returned from the 37th annual ILTA education conference, which was held this year at the Gaylord Opryland hotel in Nashville. The Gaylord in Nashville is not my favorite venue. It was cobbled...
by Bruce | July 27, 2014 | Articles, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
With this, his inaugural column, it is my great pleasure to introduce to our readers and clients Doug Caddell, who is formally joining Adam Smith, Esq. as a senior advisor (see the About Us page for more on Doug’s distinguished background). Doug brings over...
by Bruce | March 19, 2013 | Articles, Business Models, Knowledge Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
For years, there was a prominent, and ultimately iconic, billboard in Times Square advertising the Memorex brand of recording tape, displaying an image of a stoner being blasted back in his chair by music coming from, presumably, a Memorex tape. Since recording tape...