by Bruce | June 8, 2021 | Articles, Build Back Better, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Recruiting, Strategy
If we’ve heard that once over the last couple of months….. It’s getting to the point where we wonder if those words threaten to become the lyrics of the Great Summer of 2021 Breakout Pop Hit Single. Actually, we leave that to the Great Clive Davis...
by Bruce | February 10, 2021 | Articles, Build Back Better, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Recruiting, Strategy
The following column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. One of the most vexing issues for law firms is that of under-performing lawyers. And, let’s be clear from the get-go, we’re talking about chronic underperformance; not someone having, say, one bad...
by Bruce | December 17, 2020 | Articles, Branding, Build Back Better, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, NewLaw, Practice Group Management, Strategy
With vaccines no longer a distant deus ex machina but here today in the cargo holds of aircraft at 35,000 feet, on FedEx and UPS trucks nationwide, and soon at a friendly neighborhood pharmacy near you, it’s time to refocus on what the contours of Law Land’s...
by Bruce | November 23, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Cultural Considerations, Practice Group Management, Question of the Month
You know what to do! Check this space for final results. Polls will remain open until the Board of Elections (yours truly) says they’re closed. No recounts. [poll id=”21″]
by Bruce | October 5, 2020 | Articles, Branding, Build Back Better, Business Models, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Recruiting, Strategy
For years—decades, really—the legal industry has suffered from a woeful shortage of meaningful, truly informative ratings of law firms.[1] Today we intend to change that. Introducing the Leopard Law Firm Index, powered by Leopard Solutions and in partnership with...
by Bruce | August 4, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Practice Group Management
Perhaps I should have said upfront in Part 1, but it’s never too late: In this series I’m discussing the office after humanity has re-emerged from the global isolation ward this dratted pox has lowered on us all. I am not discussing, and have no interest in,...