by Bruce | July 6, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Recruiting
The other day we were presenting a webinar (what else?) on “The Lawyer of the Future” to a firm’s summer associate class, now in the midst of their remote (what else?) June and July program, and the quite rational question came up, “What do associates need to know?”...
by Bruce | April 28, 2016 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Innovative Managing Partners, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Strategy
Having spent last week in London, where every firm worthy of its PR news feed has at least mentioned “agile working,” it’s worth spending a few moments reflecting on what’s behind that shorthand. The phrase clearly embraces the notion of being able to work (well,...
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...
by Bruce | July 2, 2012 | Articles, Knowledge Management, Technology strategy
June 23 was the 100th birthday of Alan Turing, and I was delinquent not to have written about him closer to the date, but I was searching (excuses, excuses) for the appropriate BigLaw hook. Google took the occasion to honor him with one of their famous “Google...
by Bruce | January 17, 2012 | Articles, Knowledge Management, Technology strategy
If you’ll be attending LegalTech here in New York at the end of this month, this is your chance to stop by and introduce yourself—and even to spend a couple of hours learning all about e-discovery. I’ll be moderating three hour-long panels: the...
