by Bruce | July 8, 2013 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Profiles of Individuals
Herewith the next installment in our series of articles on the always charged issue of compensation, from Richard Rapp. Enjoy! Bruce Like the heads of most law firms, I had no training in management when I became president of a professional service partnership...
by Bruce | March 15, 2013 | Articles, Compensation, Profiles of Individuals
As most readers know, one of the irregular—but always popular—kinds of columns we publish are in the form of interviews with people who pass our rigorous 10-point test are intrinsically interesting. Recently I had the luck to get to know Herb Thomas, who immediately...
by Bruce | October 8, 2012 | Articles, Business Models, Globalization, Leadership, Profiles of Individuals, Strategy
Last week I had the chance to sit down with Jim Rishwain, the Chair of Pillsbury, in their New York office just off Times Square. He’s been chair since May 1, 2006, following the high-profile Mary Cranston, and when he assumed the role six years ago it had not...
by Bruce | March 7, 2012 | Articles, Law Schools, Profiles of Individuals
Dogs bark. Birds sing. Snakes bite. Lawyers sue. Or is there more to it than that? I’m referring to the series of class action lawsuits being brought against law schools claiming they systematically misled students/applicants about such presumably material...
by Bruce | November 4, 2011 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Profiles of Individuals
I don’t ordinarily write about ethical transgressions or semi-sordid tales of malfeasance among people more often found on the New York Post’s Page 6 than in the Times or the Journal, but here we have a cautionary tale that, I fear, may hold a slightly...
by Bruce | February 28, 2011 | Articles, Leadership, Profiles of Individuals, Strategy
We’ve all heard the sad news that Joe Flom died Wednesday at age 87. (WSJ, The American Lawyer, The New York Times, DealBook) Over 20 years ago, on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of The American Lawyer, Steve Brill wrote a profile of Joe, and...
