by Bruce | May 6, 2013 | Articles, Law Schools, Recruiting
Most people attend law school to obtain jobs as lawyers (Not butchers or bakers, or candlestick makers.) If law school was just a cool place to chill out for a few years without building specific job skills, they’d call it “college.” Jobs are...
by Bruce | April 30, 2013 | About the Site, Articles, Compensation, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Recruiting, Strategy
It is with great personal and professional pleasure that we announce Richard Rapp is joining Adam Smith, Esq. as Senior Advisor. Those of you who have learned even a little about the consulting side of Adam Smith, Esq. know that we have remained small by choice,...
by Bruce | March 27, 2013 | Articles, Compensation, Leadership, Recruiting, Strategy
I suspected as much all along. I’m referring to the recent admirably data-intensive study of lateral partner movement in London compiled and written by Mark Brandon of Motive Legal and published in The Lawyer a few days ago. This is must reading for anyone...
by Bruce | March 13, 2013 | Articles, Recruiting
I was recently asked to write a piece addressing this topic and it has just been published here. In case that link ceases to work or requires login credentials, I’ve also provided my own link to it here. Enjoy, and as always, thoughts and comments most...
by Bruce | March 7, 2013 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Recruiting
I don’t know about you, but I find talent markets fascinating. They have several characteristics that make them quite distinctive from regular old goods and services markets: Talent is extremely heterogeneous; it’s not as if there’s another Honda...
by Bruce | February 2, 2013 | Articles, Law Schools, Recruiting
I’ve been developing a theory for awhile about what the structure and composition of lawyers at a typical BigLaw firm may look like in future, and how it’s evolved already, and now that The New York Times has made it official that law school applications...
