by Bruce | January 7, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Marketing, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Legal Times is asking, "What Five Questions Will Law Firms Face in 2006?" I’d like to suggest there’s really only one question, and these "five" are each just facets of the same phenomenon. Their five: More merger mania? Soaring...
by Bruce | January 6, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Marketing, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Your firm is dedicated to client service as one of its pre-eminent goals, if not the absolutely highest priority, right? Not so fast. Do you have a lawyer serving full-time as "Client Services Advisor," serving as an ombudsman on behalf of the...
by Bruce | January 4, 2006 | About the Site, Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Marketing, Partnership Structures, Strategy
In case you haven’t seen the home-page of Law.com today, they are launching their "Career Center": And this is the article that I’m up there, as it were, alluding to.
by Bruce | December 5, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Marketing, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Some reader emails are more provocative than others, and today we have one from the first category. Actually, we have this from a few days ago and I’ve been sitting on it while I contemplated how to handle it. The sender, writing "on his own...
by Bruce | November 25, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Marketing, Strategy
I am delighted to be able to break the news to readers of "Adam Smith, Esq." that SUNY/Stony Brook will be offering a first-of-its-kind Executive MBA for Law Firm Leaders, with courses commencing this coming April, 2006 for the first class of 25. ...
by Bruce | November 15, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Marketing, Strategy
Quick quiz: Q1: If you made $125,000 in 2000, how much would you have to make in 2005 to have the same purchasing power (straight CPI adjustment per the Minneapolis Fed)? A1: $141,250. Now add in this observation, from one of the leading law...