by Bruce | April 4, 2005 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
The American Lawyer’s cover story this month is about how the corporate/transactional deal market "is back," five years after it went away. Equity offerings nearly tripled in value in 2004 (to $43-billion, famously including Google) and an...
by Bruce | April 1, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
This Just In: Results of "Savvy Blawgers" Query #2 The second query to this august group concerned the future of the billable hour. My original email to the Savvy Blawgers reads in pertinent part: You should also know that I’m going to be a...
by Bruce | March 31, 2005 | About the Site, Articles, Leadership, Marketing, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
First: Thanks to my (old) good friends at American Lawyer Media (particularly the always entertaining Monica Bay, expert on all things related to legal technology), I’ll be blogger-in-residence at the Chief Technology Officer/Chief Information Officer...
by Bruce | March 23, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
"From pace-setter to basket case in the United States?" Shall we all guess what firm got stuck with that donkey-tail over at law.com? Alas, of course, it was Clifford-Chance. The questions du jour are (1) what went wrong? (not so we can...
by Bruce | March 21, 2005 | Articles, Globalization, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
Most of the ink on the topic of outsourcing by law firms has been understandably devoted to back-office functions such as HR and tech support desks. I view the trend to house these functions elsewhere than in, say, midtown Manhattan, as eminently sensible and...
by Bruce | March 9, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
In my last post I noted at least anecdotal evidence about the cost of losing existing talent, and today The National Law Journal reports that firms are taking steps to make it harder for headhunters to poach associates, primarily by removing information about...