by Bruce | July 26, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Legal Week argues that "ensuring the best individuals make it up the partnership ladder has never been harder." They (properly) cite the landmark McKinsey study of nearly ten years ago, The War for Talent, which surveyed 6,000 executives from the "top...
by Bruce | July 20, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Technology strategy
Rarely do the stars align to find David Maister, Richard Susskind, and Kieran Flatt (Legal IT) all writing about the same thing at the same time, but when it so happens the opportunity to try to synthesize their thinking is too rich to pass up. The common topic du...
by Bruce | July 18, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
My friend Professor Bill Henderson of Indiana University Law School/Bloomington continues his fascinating empirical research into the legal profession with a new piece which analyzes, over the past 20 years, the geographic migration of large law firms and their...
by Bruce | July 12, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Does your firm seem to have one strategy in theory and another in practice? That is to say, does your intended strategy differ from the strategy that actually emerges based on people’s behavior? If so, you may not be alone. Indeed, Harvard...
by Bruce | July 10, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management
What do you do if you’re the three firms who finished at the very bottom of the annual American Lawyer’s rankings for associate satisfaction? That’s what The Wall Street Journal is reporting on today, and while it’s not my...
by Bruce | July 8, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
A "values-driven organization." Seductive, isn’t it? Who wouldn’t aspire to belong to such an organization? Indeed, what organization wouldn’t aspire to being so characterized? However, in the "be careful what you...