by Bruce | April 8, 2005 | About the Site, Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Thanks to Monica Bay and Kimberly Fine of ALM Media, I was able to participate as "blogger in residence" at ALM’s "CIO/CTO Summit 2005," held here at the Hilton Times Square this Wednesday and Thursday. I am pleased to report that the...
by Bruce | April 7, 2005 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Bracewell & Patterson—make that Bracewell & Giuliani—announced that Rudy Giuliani, who really needs no introduction, is joining the firm to start a New York office for the 60-year-old Houston-based firm (400 lawyers, #121 on the most recent AmLaw...
by Bruce | April 6, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Marketing, Strategy
Marketing and Knowledge Management Are Joined at the Hip, is the theme today. How so? Isn’t marketing fundamentally outward-directed and KM fundamentally inner-directed? Not in my view. Let’s start with the basics: Law firms’...
by Bruce | April 4, 2005 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
The American Lawyer’s cover story this month is about how the corporate/transactional deal market "is back," five years after it went away. Equity offerings nearly tripled in value in 2004 (to $43-billion, famously including Google) and an...
by Bruce | April 1, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
A new blog, Legal Ethics + Legal Technology, put together by Ben Cowgill, has invited guest authors, including me, to post their thoughts this week, on issues related to professional ethics. While I have often said that "Adam Smith, Esq." is all about...
by Bruce | April 1, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
This Just In: Results of "Savvy Blawgers" Query #2 The second query to this august group concerned the future of the billable hour. My original email to the Savvy Blawgers reads in pertinent part: You should also know that I’m going to be a...