by Bruce | February 23, 2011 | Articles, Leadership, Practice Group Management
With delight I can announce that Adam Smith, Esq. is embarking on a collaborative effort with Vault.com, Inc, the leading career intelligence site for those starting out in law, investment banking, management consulting, and much more. Their mission: Vault...
by Bruce | February 18, 2011 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
A-ha! That, at least, was my reaction when reading the research report published this week in The Lawyer. Here are the top-line results, and then I’ll give you my reaction: The Lawyer hired a research firm called Motive to analyze lateral...
by Bruce | February 1, 2011 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Practice Group Management
Here on Adam Smith, Esq., we’ve never devoted a lot of ink to work/life balance issues or, for that matter, to lawyers’ happiness with their jobs, stress levels, rates of depression/alcohol abuse/divorce (all of which, as is well-known, we over-index on),...
by Bruce | January 6, 2011 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management
This is a tale of how this is not your father’s recession. About a year ago I read Reinhart and Rogoff’s This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly, which ably–and depressingly–provides chapter and verse on how the aftermath of...
by Bruce | December 19, 2010 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
A few days ago LegalWeek wrote about whether the “global law model helps or hinders the top-level adviser:” In other words, whether the more commercially minded we all become as lawyers and as firms, the less room there is for the classic strategic...
by Bruce | November 12, 2010 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Practice Group Management
Does it strike you that there’s a lot of talk in the air lately about “happiness” in our profession? Just a few pointers recently: The American Lawyer writing last month about law schools “trying to close the gap between their...