by Bruce | February 22, 2008 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management
Tuesday I attended one of the regular lunch-time meetings of the ABA’s "Back to Business Law" project which describes itself as "a pilot project sponsored by the ABA Section of Business Law, [to] provide periodic continuing legal education...
by Bruce | February 18, 2008 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
While we’re all obsessing over the sub-prime crisis, the credit crunch in general, the housing market’s retrenchment, the inability to mark to market CDO’s, the devilish tendency of "liquidity" to be robust when you don’t need it and...
by Bruce | February 12, 2008 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, M&A, Practice Group Management, Strategy
By now it’s been amply reported that 55 of Anderson Kill’s 126 lawyers are leaving for Reed Smith, effective February 1. In classically hyper-ventilating fashion, the Brits (Legal Week) reported that Reed Smith "has swooped, …taking...
by Bruce | February 7, 2008 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
It’s been nearly a decade since McKinsey published the seminal article, The War for Talent, but many of its abiding observations remain true today and indeed are worth revisiting. What they found ten years ago started from the implacable demographic reality that...
by Bruce | January 29, 2008 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Annually, Hildebrandt and the Citi Private Bank issue a "Client Advisory" and this year’s is just out. What will doubtless grab headlines (and already has at places like the WSJ’s Law Blog) is the downbeat forecast for 2008—the first...
by Bruce | January 24, 2008 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management
A potentially important new book has been published—don’t worry, I’ve already asked the author for a review copy—but it’s just now been featured on Harvard Business School’s Working Knowledge. Titled When Professionals Have to Lead:...
