by Bruce | March 10, 2022 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Ineffable, Leadership, Recruiting, Strategy
I don’t have the grey cells or, frankly, the spare time to keep track, blow by blow, of the Great Associate Comp Wars of 2022, but fortunately Above the Law does and has. From January 20th of this year, when Milbank kicked off the festival of riches arms’ race,...
by Bruce | January 7, 2022 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Recruiting, Strategy
Every once in awhile, a piece of legal journalism–heck, we’re not grading on a curve here, folks–business and economics journalism with the legal industry as its subject–is so thorough, nuanced, and generously sourced that it demands a tip of...
by Bruce | August 2, 2021 | About the Site, Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Recruiting
In today’s FT, Andrew Hill, their gifted and prolific management essayist, published a column of that name (link works only for FT subscribers) discussing the unheard-of pressures on corporate deal lawyers–partners and associates alike–given the...
by Bruce | June 8, 2021 | Articles, Build Back Better, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Recruiting, Strategy
If we’ve heard that once over the last couple of months….. It’s getting to the point where we wonder if those words threaten to become the lyrics of the Great Summer of 2021 Breakout Pop Hit Single. Actually, we leave that to the Great Clive Davis...
by Bruce | February 10, 2021 | Articles, Build Back Better, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Recruiting, Strategy
The following column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. One of the most vexing issues for law firms is that of under-performing lawyers. And, let’s be clear from the get-go, we’re talking about chronic underperformance; not someone having, say, one bad...
by Bruce | December 10, 2020 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Recruiting
This column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. Yes, we’re pretty much mercilessly flogging the Leopard Law Firm Index. Why? Because in the information-desert that is Law Land, the Leopard Index provides high-quality, easily accessible data firms can use...