by Bruce | October 16, 2014 | Articles, Client Relationships, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
The other day we were in a meeting with the head of strategy and marketing and the Chair of an AmLaw 100, and the Chair mentioned an extremely promising introductory meeting he’d had a few days earlier with the General Counsel of a well-recognized company....
by Bruce | October 10, 2014 | Articles, Branding, Business Models, Client Relationships, Leadership, M&A, Marketing, Partnership Structures, Strategy
A few weeks ago reports surfaced about a motion seeking to compel Norton Rose Fulbright to withdraw from representation of its client Duke University in a case brought against the university by the estate of John Wayne, which wants the right to market alcoholic...
by Bruce | September 30, 2014 | Articles, Business Models, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Gentle Reader: Apologies for not having published more frequently over the past couple of weeks but business has taken us to Paris, the south of France, London, Portland, and Seattle–with 48 hours in New York inbetween the European and the Pacific Northwest...
by Bruce | September 5, 2014 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management
Lately you’ve seen a few columns here on the topic of leadership: Namely, how to do it well. Invoking the equal time rule, today I want to talk about failed, misguided, and destructive leadership, using two examples from very different walks of life. The first,...
by Bruce | August 21, 2014 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Strategy
A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about leadership—something of a first here at Adam Smith, Esq., at least calling it out explicitly by that name—and the topic deserves revisiting and elaboration. My article took off from an HBR piece, Why You Lead Determines How Well...
by Bruce | August 14, 2014 | Articles, Business Models, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
A famous former (and now late) leader of the US House of Representatives, the classic Boston pol Tip O’Neill, supposedly remarked that “all politics is local.” To that I would add MacEwen’s corollary, that “all rivalries are...
