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China 101

by Bruce | November 15, 2021 | Articles, Book Reviews, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Just Plain Interesting, Leadership, Strategy

If you’re like me, you may be troubled at the thought of all that you do not know or understand about China.  And, if you realize the depth of your ignorance on something so important, you ask the smartest people you know about That Something what you should...

Captive ALSP’s Are a Dead End: Discuss

by Bruce | October 30, 2021 | Articles, Build Back Better, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, NewLaw, Strategy, Technology strategy

This is our original unedited version of an article which our friends at Thomson Reuters’ Forum magazine were kind enough to print in the current issue.  Now that they have had it exclusively for a suitable grace period, we reproduce it below for readers of Adam...

Tales from the Client Service Front

by Bruce | October 22, 2021 | Articles, Branding, Business Models, Client Relationships, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Marketing, Practice Group Management, Strategic Client Management, Strategy

We’ve had our corporate checking account with Bank of America for over 15 years.  This is the story of why it’s no longer there. A few weeks backI got a letter in the mail from BofA and luckily did not toss it aside unopened as very-likely-spam.  It...

Credit Suisse and the Failure of Complex Systems

by Bruce | September 8, 2021 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Just Plain Interesting, Leadership, Strategy

A few weeks ago, the investigation Credit Suisse commissioned Paul Weiss to undertake into how the bank’s relationship with Archegos Capital Management went so wrong–inflicting $5.5 billion of losses on Credit Suisse and a total of $10-billion in losses...

Question of the Month: Your “Back to the Office” Policy?

by Bruce | August 4, 2021 | Articles, Build Back Better, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Question of the Month

It’s been awhile since we’ve offered you all up a “Question of the Month,” but we never promised our readers consistency.  We hope you have come to appreciate variety, however, so in that spirit, you know what to do: [poll...

“Golden handcuffs: dealmaking lawyers weigh up their own Faustian bargains:” Andrew Hill, the Financial Times

by Bruce | August 2, 2021 | About the Site, Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Recruiting

In today’s FT, Andrew Hill, their gifted and prolific management essayist, published a column of that name (link works only for FT subscribers) discussing the unheard-of pressures on corporate deal lawyers–partners and associates alike–given the...
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