by Bruce | May 5, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership
If the law is a business, should law school be more like business school? This New York Law Journal article provides the full spectrum of perspectives on that question, making it either journalistically professional and even-handed or else a complete hodgepodge...
by Bruce | April 23, 2004 | Articles, Leadership
"Management all comes down to people." How often have we heard that, and how often is it honored in the breach? CFO Magazine writes that the knee-jerk assumption that everyone in each department (in this case, surprise, finance) wants to be promoted to the...
by Bruce | April 16, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership
"Leadership" is as elusive a concept as there is in business—not that that has prevented scores of writers spilling torrents of ink on it. (The general form of the tautology in this management literature is: It requires a great leader to...
by Bruce | April 10, 2004 | Articles, Leadership, Technology strategy
Is your firm facing a gnarly IT issue? Such as securing client extranets, authenticating (virtual and real) visitors to privileged document repositories or firm financial and competitive information? Chances are that ways of dealing with the challenge...
by Bruce | April 9, 2004 | Articles, Leadership
The American Lawyer has published its "Corporate Scorecard 2003" ranking the top firms in a broad range of transactional categories from IPO’s (you guessed it—dead) to bankruptcy (also counter-intuitively quiet) to municipal bond issuance...
by Bruce | April 7, 2004 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures
Monica Bay, the incomparable editor of my favorite new publication, Law Firm Inc., leads off this month with a call for firms to start identifying their senior business-side managers (Executive Directors, COO’s, et al.) on the firms’ websites. One...