by Bruce | February 3, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Marketing, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Mark Chandler, a Senior Vice President and the Secretary and General Counsel of Cisco, gave a speech last week in San Diego at the Northwestern School of Law’s 34th Annual Securities Regulation Institute, which has been getting a fair amount of play online, and...
by Bruce | February 1, 2007 | Articles, Just Plain Interesting, Leadership, Practice Group Management
The College of Law Practice Management was formed over a decade ago to "honor and recognize distinguished law practice management professionals, to set standards of achievement for others in the profession, and to fund and assist projects that enhance the highest...
by Bruce | January 27, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Lately there’s been heightened discussion of whether firms’ Managing Partners should be full-time CEO’s, or whether the traditional custom of their being active practitioners, billing gobs of hours on real live client matters and managing the firm...
by Bruce | January 25, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
"Goldman Sachs on line 1, Blackstone Partners on line 2—they both want to buy 20% of the firm." Could that be a scenario you, or your successors, will be facing some day? In the UK, something very like it is already happening. ...
by Bruce | January 24, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Practice Group Management, Strategy
The coverage has been wall-to-wall, if not deafening, and two things we do not do here at "Adam Smith, Esq." (there are others, trust me) are (1) cover breaking news; and (2) tell you things that we know you already know. So I haven’t yet...
by Bruce | January 19, 2007 | Articles, Finance, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Technology strategy
I’m pleased to be able to be able to announce the winners of the 2007 Law Technology News Law Firm and Law Department Awards. If you’re going to be at LegalTech, I understand tables for the awards dinner are still available. (As a member...