by Bruce | July 13, 2013 | Articles, Leadership
Managing partners are made, nor born, and one has to wonder—well, I have to wonder, anyway—what distinguishes the competent from the incompetent, and the great from the good. I have a theory as to where it starts, what at least one indispensable criterion is, and now,...
by Bruce | July 8, 2013 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Profiles of Individuals
Herewith the next installment in our series of articles on the always charged issue of compensation, from Richard Rapp. Enjoy! Bruce Like the heads of most law firms, I had no training in management when I became president of a professional service partnership...
by Bruce | June 27, 2013 | Articles, Compensation, Leadership, Strategy
Bloomberg Law asked to interview me about what the potential broader implications of the Weil layoffs might be. Take a look.
by Bruce | June 25, 2013 | Articles, Compensation, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Adam Smith, Esq. isn’t in the business of covering—or typically even commenting on—late-breaking news, but there’s news and then there’s news. And the Weil layoffs were reported above the fold on the front page of today’s Wall Street Journal...
by Bruce | June 22, 2013 | Articles, Branding, Business Models, Leadership, Strategy
At the conclusion of the final article in the “Law Firm Taxonomy” series (the article on Synergistic Super-Boutiques), I invite readers to take a survey offering your thoughts about the taxonomy structure in general, a few pointed questions about your firm...
by Bruce | June 20, 2013 | Articles, Business Models, Leadership, Strategy
Before we leap into the final category of firms in our taxonomy—”synergistic super-boutiques”—let’s recur to first principles and re-state what we’re trying to solve for. The issue is what do firms do to (in Darwinian order): (a) avoid...