by Bruce | April 12, 2014 | Articles, Law Schools, Leadership, Strategy
Yesterday morning I got back to New York on the redeye from Seattle where I’d been at the annual NALP conference, attended by well over 1,000 people involved in career services from law firms and law schools. (I was there figuratively wearing my JD Match hat,...
by Bruce | 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,...
by Bruce | 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...
by Bruce | 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...
by Bruce | 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...
by Bruce | October 19, 2012 | Articles, Just Plain Interesting, Law Schools, Recruiting, Technology strategy
On Monday the 2012 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Science was awarded to Lloyd Shapley and Al Roth, for their work on market design and matching theory, which relate to how individuals and firms find and select one another in areas from school choice to jobs to...
