by Bruce | December 9, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
In general, I try to avoid staking out hard and fast positions. Partly, this is simply because I have a strong preference for spending my time analyzing and discussing issues where there really are two (or more) sides; they’re just plain more intrinsically...
by Bruce | December 2, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Periodically I’m asked whether the legal industry could steal a page from the playbook of other industries that it might resemble, either for inspiration and innovation, or for cautionary, clarifying lessons. If the question relates to what economists call...
by Bruce | November 30, 2006 | Articles, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
Seminal business/management books are few and far between, although you’d never guess that walking into your typical Barnes & Noble and knee-capping yourself over the inevitable piled-high/piled-deep table displaying the combined wit and wisdom of wannabe...
by Bruce | November 28, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
We know from life in general that people excel differently depending on the circumstances. Some are natural schmoozers, some highly analytic, some of us lone wolves and some of us can’t work without a crowd. Does the ghastly cliche...
by Bruce | November 19, 2006 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Today we visit the prosaic topic of conflicts-checking. I’ve come to believe it’s not so prosaic after all. Consider: The highly-publicized referral to the UK’s Law Society Regulation Board of two senior Freshfields partners, announced last...
by Bruce | November 15, 2006 | Articles, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Strategy
Canada-based Law Times is out with an interview of yours truly in its current issue. When the reporter and I met, some weeks ago here in Manhattan, I thought that through my persistent questions I had learned more about the Canadian legal marketplace than he had...