Recent conversation with a veteran friend in the industry. He had correctly deduced from a recent column in these pages that I’m (re-)reading the all-time strategy classic Playing to Win by A.G. Lafley and Roger Martin (Harvard Business Review Press: 2013) and...
Take it away, readers! The most effective way to get lawyers to collaborate is: With direct incentives through compensation, e.g., multiple credits for importing/exporting business across offices and/or practices. (34%, 44 Votes) Through training, professional...
Last week Jim Stewart of The New York Times published $11 Million a Year for a Law Partner? Bidding War Grows at Top-Tier Firms which was pegged to the news that Sandra Goldstein had left Cravath for Kirkland, and a reported compensation package of $11-million/year...
My favorite law in the whole world is the Law of Unintended Consequences. I suspect I’m so fond of it because it’s intrinsically perverse, it smotes the smartest people (maybe especially the smartest people), it’s of universal applicability, and it shouldn’t be that...
Our good friends at Leopard Solutions have just come out with their annual recap of the law firm competitive landscape. If you don’t know Leopard, they have one of the most rigorously researched and scrupulously maintained databases there is to be had on a rich...
This piece is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. Shortly after the New Year, a powerful winter storm marched up the East Coast. While certainly a very serious storm, Grayson, as it was named, was far from the worst or most damaging. New York got about 10”...
