by Bruce | June 29, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership
At a meeting at Milbank yesterday, a senior partner had occasion to recount the tale of the pencil-sharpener, which was an actual employee at the firm decades ago.The pencil-sharpener’s role was to circulate throughout the office collecting used pencils and...
by Bruce | June 28, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Strategy
As promised, here’s the AmLaw 100 for 2005. I’ll have some substantive commentary later today, but for now I’ll primarily limit my gloss to that provided by my friends at American Lawyer Media: "Five Am Law 200 firms posted gross revenue...
by Bruce | June 25, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Technology strategy
CIO Insight has the shortest, sweetest guide to wikis behind the firewall that I’ve yet seen: Wikis are a social innovation, not a technological one. Wikis turn the notion of "permissions" built into traditional knowledge management DMS’s and...
by Bruce | June 24, 2005 | Articles, Finance, Leadership, M&A, Strategy
Pepper-Hamilton, HQ’d in Philadelphia, which I’ve always been irrationally fond of, becomes the latest firm I’m aware of to appoint a Chief Strategy Officer—a litigation partner whose bio highlights his fascination with issues at the...
by Bruce | June 24, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Technology strategy
I previously wrote on the notion of knowledge-focused enterprises (make that: law firms) using internal, behind-the-firewall blogs as tools for "doing" Knowledge Management. For example, if your firm has one or two individuals expert in...
by Bruce | June 22, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Are we entering the ‘Net’s first golden age? Wait a minute, you’re protesting, the first golden age in Internet Years was the dot-com bubble, no? I actually think not. The dot-com bubble (in which I had a role on-stage in the chorus,...