by Bruce | January 16, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Just Plain Interesting, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Which profession is most likely to suffer from stress, depression, and alcohol or substance abuse? That’s right—here’s lookin’ at you, kid. According to the FT, alcohol-related deaths in the UK among lawyers are double the rate of...
by Bruce | January 13, 2005 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Just Plain Interesting
OK, so this has nothing to do with law firms per se; it’s still fascinating (and we’re allowed to have recess even while school is in session). The FT has an analytic/speculative piece comparing the economic performance in the post-WWII period of (a)...
by Bruce | January 12, 2005 | About the Site, Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Just Plain Interesting
The world has just learned that Robert Heilbroner, author of the justly famous and best-selling The Worldly Philosophers: The Lives, Times, and Ideas of the Great Economic Thinkers, first published in 1953 and still in print, died here in Manhattan last week at age...
by Bruce | December 31, 2004 | About the Site, Articles, Compensation, Finance, Just Plain Interesting, Strategy
I just finished reading Tombstone: A Lawyer’s Tales from the Takeover Decades (Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 1992) by Lawrence Lederman, former chairman of the corporate practice at Milbank-Tweed (and still a partner there), who started his career as...
by Bruce | December 13, 2004 | Articles, Just Plain Interesting, Knowledge Management, Technology strategy
The estimable Ron Friedman, who’s been covering legal technology since 1989, has done a nice recap of the past 25 years of legal technology for The American Lawyer. Two messages here: No matter how much you may bitch and moan at technology today,...
by Bruce | December 9, 2004 | About the Site, Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Just Plain Interesting
Adam Smith’s thought (the real Adam Smith, that is) has been famously characterized by the economist George Stigler as a "stupendous palace erected upon the granite of self-interest." I have long labeled this a "mischaracterization,"...