by Bruce | November 15, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
The Holy Grail of assembling the most potent and effective team for a client matter is, simply put, to have the right people in the right place at the right time. Wal-Mart (and other companies like Toyota) have achieved this with inventory and supplies; what...
by Bruce | November 8, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy
"The Industrialization of the Law Firm" is the ambitious, but fair, title of a piece by A. Harrison Barnes, Esq., founder of BCG Search. His conclusion?: "Today’s law firm environment is, in a sense, now being controlled by Adam...
by Bruce | November 5, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership
Not to appear to be piling on, but here is yet another call for the introduction of merely sane and rational, everyday business management processes into law firm land. In this case, the topic is not recondite in the least: Plain old cash management and timely...
by Bruce | November 1, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Thanks to the good folks at Baker Robbins & Co., I was able to guest-blog the Knowledge Counsel Forum here in New York this past Thursday and Friday, October 28 and 29. Rather than act as a virtual transcriber of the mountain of information presented, I will...
by Bruce | October 30, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
The Global 100 for 2004 is out, courtesy of our friends at The American Lawyer. First, the chart of revenue by rank: This has what statisticians call "a long tail"—and this is only the top 100 firms, recall; imagine what it would look like for...
by Bruce | October 25, 2004 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Elaborating on the immediately previous post, the curve on the graphic is…[drum-roll, please]—a demand curve, our Econ. 101 friend. (High $$$ price means little demand ["bet the company"], low price means high demand...