Students Outsmart Professors?

by | December 18, 2013 | Articles, Law Schools, Recruiting, Strategy

Linear extrapolations are widely suspected of being unreliable, but maybe not widely enough. Stated differently, it’s a category error to engage in static, not dynamic, analysis. Stated yet differently, the interesting challenge is almost never to ask,...

How do we know what we know?

by | May 11, 2013 | Articles, Law Schools, Recruiting, Strategy

What follows will be a bit out of the ordinary—OK, a lot out of the ordinary—for regular readers of Adam Smith, Esq., but there’s a cold, hard, important, gem of truth in it for lawyers, our firms, and our bedrock assumptions about the way things ought to work...

USNWR, RIP

by | May 6, 2013 | Articles, Law Schools, Recruiting

Most people attend law school to obtain jobs as lawyers (Not butchers or bakers, or candlestick makers.) If law school was just a cool place to chill out for a few years without building specific job skills, they’d call it “college.” Jobs are...

But I Have All This Debt

by | February 2, 2013 | Articles, Law Schools, Recruiting

I’ve been developing a theory for awhile about what the structure and composition of lawyers at a typical BigLaw firm may look like in future, and how it’s evolved already, and now that The New York Times has made it official that law school applications...

Entry-Level Recruiting Conference

by | October 17, 2012 | Articles, Law Schools, Recruiting

We’re pleased to be sponsoring a conference on entry-level recruiting: San Francisco Tuesday 13 November 2012 9:00 am – 4:15 pm AMA Executive Conference Center (Union Square) This is actually an updated version of a conference we did in New York this past...
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