by Bruce | December 16, 2005 | About the Site, Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Just Plain Interesting
Aside from law firms and the business thereof—my genuine professional passion—I must occasionally share a personal passion, but only if it touches upon economics. One personal passion is the almost unimaginable centrality of the subway system to New...
by Bruce | November 30, 2005 | About the Site, Articles, Just Plain Interesting
With pride I would like to announce the release this morning of "BlawgWorld 2006," the first in what is promised to be an annual series of "e-books" comprising the best of the blawgosphere, brought to you by our friends at TechnoLawyer. In...
by Bruce | November 29, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Just Plain Interesting, Leadership, Strategy
And now a moment to reflect—with sincere earnestness—on what makes it all worthwhile. The text for this post comes, coincidentally, from an interview with Michael Lewis (an author so talented that, as they say, his shopping list makes...
by Bruce | November 12, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Just Plain Interesting, Leadership, Strategy
Peter Drucker, the management uber-guru who hated the term "guru," died at home in Claremont, California yesterday "of natural causes," a phrase all too rarely heard in our Big Medical Science era. I’ll leave the recitation of the facts...
by Bruce | October 7, 2005 | About the Site, Articles, Just Plain Interesting
Obligatory, I suppose: While lawyers are less than 1% of the population, we evidently make up 5—6% of blog writers and readers, putting us behind computer professionals and students. "It’s all words, that’s all the law is."—Scott...
by Bruce | July 25, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Just Plain Interesting, Leadership, Strategy
Here are three rankings of top firms, all published this month. Any ideas on which is what? Ranking A Firm Ranking B Firm Ranking C Firm 1 Wachtell 1 Cravath 1 Wachtel 2 Cahill Gordon 2 Wachtel 2 Cravath 3 Sullivan & Cromwell 3 Sullivan & Cromwell 3...
