by Bruce | January 7, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Marketing, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Legal Times is asking, "What Five Questions Will Law Firms Face in 2006?" I’d like to suggest there’s really only one question, and these "five" are each just facets of the same phenomenon. Their five: More merger mania? Soaring...
by Bruce | January 4, 2006 | About the Site, Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Marketing, Partnership Structures, Strategy
In case you haven’t seen the home-page of Law.com today, they are launching their "Career Center": And this is the article that I’m up there, as it were, alluding to.
by Bruce | January 3, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Improve on your weaknesses or build on your strengths: Which one would you focus on to achieve greater success? If, like 59% of people surveyed by Marcus Buckingham, co-author of First, Break All the Rules, you chose "work on your weaknesses,"...
by Bruce | December 23, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
I have posited before that the traditional one-size-fits-all associate-to-partner model is coming under increasing stress. Evidently Allen & Overy agrees. After suffering 25% attrition in its associate ranks last year, they have announced after a lengthy...
by Bruce | December 20, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Normally, the issue in succession planning—when a firm even goes through such planning in a sober and serious-minded fashion—is who among the next generation is best prepared and equipped, through both experience and innate constitution, to take over the...
by Bruce | December 13, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
According to The Recorder, "Law firm leaders throughout California identify increasing leverage as a key strategy in their business model." We are here to ask the time-honored question, "What can they be thinking?" Let’s back up. ...