by Bruce | October 11, 2011 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Law Schools, Leadership, Recruiting, Strategy
Here are two things we know: First, the rise of the Legal Process Outsourcers–and other nontraditional ways of accomplishing legal work–has not only arrived for keeps, but is accelerating. Consider that all of the conceivable possibilities for...
by Bruce | September 24, 2011 | Articles, Globalization, Just Plain Interesting, Leadership
Here’s a depressing chart, courtesy of the enthralling and overwhelming All Things Data site Calculated Risk. This shows the percent of job losses relative to the peak employment month for every post-WWII US recession (there have been 11). You can see...
by Bruce | September 5, 2011 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Recruiting
You might be interested in my reflections on some of the things we can tell from the release of The American Lawyer’s “midlevel associate satisfaction survey.”I actually published that column over at our “sister site,” JD Match/Views....
by Bruce | September 1, 2011 | Articles, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
A couple of weeks ago, Marc Andreessen wrote in The Wall Street Journal a provocative piece called “Why Software is Eating the World.” Among the observations he makes are: My own theory is that we are in the middle of a dramatic and broad...
by Bruce | August 23, 2011 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management
Steven Harper, a former Kirkland partner of 30 years who now writes at The Belly of the Beast and is re-published regularly on law.com, is someone whose writing and analysis I have admired since he first appeared on the scene. (No, I don’t know him, but I wish I...
by Bruce | July 15, 2011 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Think you could learn anything from Uniqlo, the high-turnover, fashion-forward clothing retailer out of Japan? No? Then how about learning something from Japan itself? (That is to say, from its corporate culture.) No, again? Because...