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Bruce Interviewed About Agentic AI

by Bruce | April 22, 2026 | About the Site, Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy, Technology strategy

Being published live today are links to video recordings of my recent interview with Sidebar Advisors’ Founder and Managing Director, Niraj Chhabra.  Copious thanks to Niraj and his team for making this possible. Spotify Apple Buzzsprout We covered a lot of...

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

by Bruce | February 12, 2026 | About the Site, Articles, Branding, Business Models, Generative AI, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy

The following is a guest post from our long-time friend and astute observer of Law Land, Alastair Morrison.   –Bruce & Janet Alastair Morrison, Legal Consultant Alastair Morrison is a London-based legal consultant with extensive experience in law firm...

Ask Not for Whom GenAI Tolls

by Bruce | January 18, 2026 | Articles, Business Models, Generative AI, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy, Technology strategy

Law Land in general, and BigLaw in particular, has a firmly established and proud custom of not being the first.  To almost anything.  I say this based on personal experience, because the almost invariable response to a novel proposal is, “Who else is doing...

Janet on Bloomberg Law re the Non-Equity Tier

by Bruce | November 6, 2025 | About the Site, Branding, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures

Recently Janet was invited to participate in a Bloomberg Law podcast on the topic of Ropes & Gray remaining a single-tier partnership despite the industry’s overwhelming movement towards the two-tier (equity and non-equity) partnership model.  Her fellow...

The Diabolical Collective Action Problem

by Bruce | November 4, 2025 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy

Back in March we first wrote about the theretofore-inconceivable systematic attack on BigLaw by our current Administration in Washington, DC.  The “program of revenge,” as we described it, calculatedly targeted law firms representing clients and interests...

Bloomberg Law Interview on the Non-Equity Tier

by Bruce | February 26, 2025 | About the Site, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy

With yours truly live on camera. Thanks to our “BLaw” friends for making this possible. Feel free to...
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