by Bruce | November 15, 2006 | Articles, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Strategy
Canada-based Law Times is out with an interview of yours truly in its current issue. When the reporter and I met, some weeks ago here in Manhattan, I thought that through my persistent questions I had learned more about the Canadian legal marketplace than he had...
by Bruce | September 25, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, M&A, Strategy
In the current issue of Legal Week, you can find both a breathless and statistics-distorting lead editorial, which I commend immediately to your e-dustbin (71% is "almost three-quarters," while 61% is "well under two-thirds"—how about the...
by Bruce | September 12, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
It’s not our wont to try to "cover" late-breaking news—that’s not an arena where I care to compete, nor is it why I think you come to "Adam Smith, Esq."—but just as every rule has exceptions, so today’s word of merger...
by Bruce | August 28, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Using as a "hook" the dismissal of Tom Cruise from Paramount Pictures by Sumner Redstone, today’s NYT has a piece in the Business Section (also here for those of you not members of the obnoxious "Times Select"), "A Big Star May Not a...
by Bruce | August 3, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Although the jury may still well and truly be out on whether the consolidation wave among AmLaw firms: (a) is just getting started; (b) has already crested; (c) is the smartest thing firms could possibly do in our increasingly globalized and client-centric world; (d)...
by Bruce | July 5, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Strategy
As regular readers know, I subscribe to the "people make the times" theory of history rather than the "times make the people" theory. Today’s lesson features Greg Jordan of Reed Smith, who recently engineered the merger of his firm with...