by Bruce | December 31, 2006 | About the Site, Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Having been tagged separately and independently by J. Craig Williams and by Gerry Riskin to contribute to the meme launched by Stephanie West Allen and Julie Fleming Brown to participate in the "Lawyers Appreciate…" round-robin, I feel it incumbent...
by Bruce | December 21, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy, Technology strategy
At the intersection of: technology globalization, and demographics we have, according to Robert Reich (Secretary of Labor under President Clinton and now Prof. of Public Policy at Berkeley), the challenge of "the economics of people" for the next few...
by Bruce | December 20, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Here’s the problem: "According to a study by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, president of the Center for Work-Life Policy in New York, 42 percent of female lawyers take time off — apart from maternity leave — in contrast to 30 percent of women in business...
by Bruce | December 15, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Strategy
In a piece in this month’s American Lawyer titled "Turning Point," Dan DiPietro, the head of the Citigroup Private Bank’s Law Firm group, provides quantitative financial support for a theory I’ve long held, that our industry is not just...
by Bruce | December 9, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
In general, I try to avoid staking out hard and fast positions. Partly, this is simply because I have a strong preference for spending my time analyzing and discussing issues where there really are two (or more) sides; they’re just plain more intrinsically...
by Bruce | November 22, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, M&A, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Mergers, globalization, consolidation: I’ve heard all about it. Time to tell me something new. Is that your feeling? Then let’s talk about post-merger leadership, and what you could actually do to make a difference if the seemingly-inevitable comes to...
