by Bruce | August 28, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Using as a "hook" the dismissal of Tom Cruise from Paramount Pictures by Sumner Redstone, today’s NYT has a piece in the Business Section (also here for those of you not members of the obnoxious "Times Select"), "A Big Star May Not a...
by Bruce | August 20, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Today’s topic is funding partner contributions to the firm’s capital. Specifically, how does one fund those contributions? And since the question is empirical, we have a poll, to which I invite all familiar with their firm’s practice to...
by Bruce | August 17, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
With great pleasure I am able to announce the (e-)publication of the Inaugural Summer 2006 issue of "Innovaction" Magazine, published by the College of Law Practice Management. Available here, its theme is "celebrating innovation in the practice...
by Bruce | August 13, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Law Technology News has a panel—although it actually seems to be a list of isolated commentators, not an interactive group discussion—talking about "how the emergence of business intelligence financial analysis software is going to affect the legal...
by Bruce | August 11, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
My good friend and colleague Patrick McKenna just released a new e-book, "The First 100 Days: Transitioning a New Managing Partner," which is available for free download and reading here, using the nifty "Nxtbook" publishing platform. ...
by Bruce | August 7, 2006 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
We all negotiate: Some of us for a living, others of us just in order to live. Most of us, I suspect, approach a negotiation without much of a coherent view or approach on what distinguishes a successful and effective negotiation, that leaves both parties...
