by Bruce | May 20, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Marketing, Strategy
Yesterday I met Bruce Marcus, at a Starbucks outside Columbia University’s main gates, a very convenient walk from home for me. Venus even came along. Bruce Marcus was most recently co-author of "Client at the Core," described on the leaf...
by Bruce | May 14, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Marketing, Strategy, Technology strategy
The New York Law Journal is reporting that, under the auspices of the New York County Lawyers Association, "more than 60" law firms have agreed to a written pact to report to their corporate clients the makeup of legal teams by "race, gender, ethnicity,...
by Bruce | May 12, 2005 | Articles, Knowledge Management, Marketing, Strategy, Technology strategy
If "three anecdotes constitute a trend," as journalists say, then I’m here to report an optimistic development. First, as my friend Denise Howell reports, her firm, Reed Smith, announced yesterday the formal launch of...
by Bruce | May 5, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Marketing, Strategy, Technology strategy
Are blogs by lawyers and law firms the hottest thing to appear on the marketing horizon? Well, yes, and no. (And both those articles are featured this morning on ALM Media’s law.com.) The first imagines that "Fred" can start a...
by Bruce | April 22, 2005 | Articles, Globalization, Leadership, Marketing, Strategy, Technology strategy
This post will be in the nature of "piling on," usually an indefensible tactic but, dear reader, as I hope you will agree in this case, justified as an exercise in overcoming what is for many practicing lawyers a nearly insurmountable allergic reaction to...
by Bruce | April 13, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Marketing, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Thanks to Susan Raridon Lambreth of Hildebrandt International, guru of Practice Group Management, I was able to serve as blogger-in-residence at this conference held here in New York over the last two days. I’m happy to be able to report that the attendees...