by Bruce | December 6, 2011 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Recruiting, Strategy
And I respond here (transcript) and here (podcast).Among the highlights:[Me:[ One of the things that started to happen before the Great Recession was, for example, I saw this most clearly in the rise of starting salaries to a $160,000 in New York and major...
by Bruce | October 11, 2011 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Law Schools, Leadership, Recruiting, Strategy
Here are two things we know: First, the rise of the Legal Process Outsourcers–and other nontraditional ways of accomplishing legal work–has not only arrived for keeps, but is accelerating. Consider that all of the conceivable possibilities for...
by Bruce | September 5, 2011 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Recruiting
You might be interested in my reflections on some of the things we can tell from the release of The American Lawyer’s “midlevel associate satisfaction survey.”I actually published that column over at our “sister site,” JD Match/Views....
by Bruce | July 21, 2011 | Articles, Law Schools, Recruiting
I wrote elsewhere about Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) writing to the President of the ABA, Stephen Zack, asking some quite pointed questions about just how rigorous their law school accreditation standards are. And on a related note I analyzed New York Law...
by Bruce | July 17, 2011 | Articles, Law Schools, Recruiting
By this time everyone and their cousin has probably read The New York Times’ “Law School Economics: Ka-Ching!,” which graced the front page of the website and the print Business section in today’s Sunday paper. This won’t be...
by Bruce | July 11, 2011 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Innovative Managing Partners, Recruiting
I suppose when we’re quoted in The Wall Street Journal it’s worth writing about. So it was with a combination of pleasure and surprise that I opened this morning’s browser tabs to find this piece talking about law schools beginning to...