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RIP Stroock (1876–2023)

by Bruce | November 16, 2023 | About the Site, Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, NewLaw, Practice Group Management, Strategy

Irish BIshop George Berkeley (1685–1753) famously asked, “if a tree falls in the forest and no one is present to hear it, would there be a sound?”  His notion is neither as cutesy nor as vexed as it might strike you, but a snappy and memorable...

“I Was Wrong”

by Bruce | July 28, 2022 | About the Site, Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, NewLaw, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy

Recently The New York Times devoted its Sunday “Opinion” section to the theme, “I was wrong,” and several of its leading columnists each penned an essay “I was wrong about….” This set us thinking. And with hardly any...

Planning for the Unknowable: Part 1

by Bruce | February 9, 2022 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, NewLaw, Strategy

As glimmers of dawn begin to appear (shock! awe! disbelief!) at the end of our long night of Covid, it seems timely to address the question of how leaders can plan for a new period that is completely unknowable.  (I know, I know; “Don’t jinx it, Bruce, by...

Captive ALSP’s Are a Dead End: Discuss

by Bruce | October 30, 2021 | Articles, Build Back Better, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, NewLaw, Strategy, Technology strategy

This is our original unedited version of an article which our friends at Thomson Reuters’ Forum magazine were kind enough to print in the current issue.  Now that they have had it exclusively for a suitable grace period, we reproduce it below for readers of Adam...

Talking New Law & Big Law with Joe Borstein of LexFusion

by Bruce | March 11, 2021 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Branding, Business Models, Finance, Leadership, NewLaw, Partnership Structures, Strategy, Technology strategy

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Resilience and the Post-Covid World (Build Back Better)

by Bruce | December 17, 2020 | Articles, Branding, Build Back Better, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, NewLaw, Practice Group Management, Strategy

With vaccines no longer a distant deus ex machina but here today in the cargo holds of aircraft at 35,000 feet, on FedEx and UPS trucks nationwide, and soon at a friendly neighborhood pharmacy near you, it’s time to refocus on what the contours of Law Land’s...
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