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...
by Bruce | July 3, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
The Financial Times has a special report on "Innovative Lawyers 2006," which I commend to you essentially in its entirety. It’s thoroughly researched, involving soliciting submissions about "innovation" from the largest 200 firms in the...
by Bruce | June 30, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Guess the speaker (hint: London-based Managing Partner of a firm you’ve heard of): "Over a 10-year period the impact of rationalisation by industry sector has been dramatic. In the banking sector, 28 major institutions reduced to eight, in...
by Bruce | June 24, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Strategy
"As global law firms begin to take on the size and reach of some of the world’s most notable multinationals, it is not unreasonable to assume that they should be run with a more commercial management structure." —Nigel Knowles, Joint CEO of DLA Piper...
by Bruce | June 21, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Eric Beinhocker, a fellow at the McKinsey Global Institute (a "think tank," in the oddly quaint but apt phrase), is out with what may be one of the most provocative books on economics in several years—though admittedly I haven’t even seen a copy...
by Bruce | June 14, 2006 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Occasionally an article lies so irresistibly at the core intersection of economic theory and the professional interests of the "Adam Smith, Esq." community that, despite the fact we are not here for a graduate seminar in economics, it simply demands to...