by Bruce | June 18, 2012 | Articles, Finance, Leadership, Recruiting, Strategy
Three years ago I published What Laterals Need to Know: A Modest Proposal, which essayed the thought that firms had an obligation to disclose certain information about the firm in advance to a prospective lateral partner. (I owe a debt of gratitude to my friend...
by Bruce | March 30, 2012 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Recruiting, Strategy
A Wharton School professor has analyzed the performance, and pay levels, of external hires vs. internal staff promotions. He used personnel data from a division of a major US investment bank for 2003—2009, and the characteristics of that talent market are remarkably...
by Bruce | March 9, 2012 | Articles, Law Schools, Leadership, Recruiting
The National Law Journal just published a wealth of information, derived from NALP statistics, about which law schools send the greatest number of their graduates to NLJ 250 firms as first-year associates, and-this is the really fun part-how many graduates of those...
by Bruce | February 28, 2012 | Articles, Recruiting
Law Deans in Jail?? How often have you seen that as the title of an article on SSRN? But Morgan Cloud and George Shepherd, both professors at Emory Law, have perhaps risked career-ending injuries by publishing just such an article. Here’s the abstract: A most...
by Bruce | February 25, 2012 | Articles, Law Schools, Recruiting
The National Law Journal has published a first look at where law students graduating in the Class of 2011 began work, focusing on those who went directly to an NLJ 250 firm. Keep in mind that this consciously omits two other potentially desirable job categories,...
by Bruce | January 11, 2012 | Articles, Recruiting
Our other company, JD Match, has organized and is sponsoring an all-day conference on “The Brave New World of Entry-Level Recruiting” for law firms. It will be: In midtown Manhattan at the AMA Executive Conference Center in Times Square Tuesday January 24...
