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...
by Bruce | September 27, 2010 | About the Site, Articles, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Under Pressure – Understanding the Dynamics Between In-House Counsel and Law Firm Management With Former Apple General Counsel, Dan Cooperman and Bruce MacEwen, Founder of Adam Smith, Esq. Please join two of Gerson Lehrman Group’s leading legal experts Dan...