by Bruce | April 10, 2006 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
"Lawyers and innovation are not words that people automatically put together," is how the FT starts its announcement of the launch of a ranking of the most innovative law firms, and individual lawyers, co-sponsored by the accountancy BDO Stoy Hayward and...
by Bruce | April 4, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Marketing, Practice Group Management, Strategy
How well does your firm know its clients? More pointedly: How richly, truly, deeply does your firm understand your clients’ attitudes towards your firm at large, the services you provide, and the individuals who provide it? Even if your firm is in...
by Bruce | March 27, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Just Plain Interesting, Leadership, Practice Group Management
David Maister, who knows his way across the management/leadership landscape so much better than almost anyone else that he seems to have been GPS-enabled while the rest of us were relying on 15thC. parchment maps, has taken off from my post of a few days ago about...
by Bruce | March 25, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Practice Group Management, Technology strategy
When I wrote about the Baker-Robbins/LegalWorks KM conference, I purposely left out the most impressive application/presentation of them all: Morrison & Foerster’s Oz Benamram discussing "AnswerBase," the firm’s new KM system which will...
by Bruce | March 24, 2006 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Technology strategy
Knowledge Counsel Forum, Westin Times Square, March 23–24, 2006 Sponsored by Baker Robbins and West Legalworks I attended this conference and want to report on it. I don’t plan to cover this as a court reporter or even as a conventional journalist on a...
by Bruce | March 21, 2006 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Tomorrow I’m giving a presentation to the New Jersey Area regional meeting of the International Legal Technology Association (ILTA) on "Leadership Principles for Technology Managers." Topics I’ll address include: What Leadership is Not (hint:...