by Bruce | November 14, 2010 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy
As has been widely reported (for example, on law.com), Proskauer and SJ Berwin announced shortly before the weekend that they had called off their merger talks, which were originally disclosed over half a year ago. The predictably anodyne statement, issued jointly,...
by Bruce | November 2, 2010 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Strategy
Creativity and innovation–two characteristics conventionally thought to be in short supply in law firms–are assumed to be of ineffable origins. Oddly satisfying, that, isn’t it? If no one has a clue how to encourage or foster it, we are...
by Bruce | October 22, 2010 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, Strategy
I had occasion recently to reflect on the situation facing a fair number of firms who have managing partners (or chairs, or CEO’s, whatever their titles) who have held the post for a relatively long time and where there is, to the outward eye at least, no heir...
by Bruce | September 27, 2010 | About the Site, Articles, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Under Pressure – Understanding the Dynamics Between In-House Counsel and Law Firm Management With Former Apple General Counsel, Dan Cooperman and Bruce MacEwen, Founder of Adam Smith, Esq. Please join two of Gerson Lehrman Group’s leading legal experts Dan...
by Bruce | September 22, 2010 | Articles, Business Models, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, M&A, Marketing, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Attentive readers will know that I’m in Sao Paulo this week, where the talk of the town (well, at least the talk of The Bar) is this story which was reported yesterday morning in The Latin Lawyer:Any affiliations between international and Brazilian law firms...
by Bruce | September 6, 2010 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, Strategy
A couple of weeks ago the always perspicacious and often contrarian Alex Novarese of LegalWeek used the occasion of his regular column to opine “Not so demanding–clients aren’t pushing the legal industry forward.” This was swiftly followed by...