by Bruce | January 17, 2017 | Articles, Recruiting
The following article was first published earlier this week in The Lawyer. We reproduce it here with their kind permission. Two days after the US Presidential election, the Atlantic magazine’s lead article, “The Trump Transition Begins,” opened with this short...
by Bruce | June 7, 2016 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Recruiting, Strategy
Well, not quite. “New York To $190!” was, of course, the long-running headline Above The Law printed frequently in more innocent and/or palmier days, with (we suppose) a combination of hope and bemusement. Well, Cravath’s pre-emptive strike of going...
by Bruce | April 7, 2016 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Recruiting, Strategy
On a cross-country flight this week, I read most of Smarter Faster Better, by Charles Duhigg, currently on the NYT’s top 10 hardcover/nonfiction list of best-selling books. It’s fair to characterize the reviews it’s gotten as “mixed,” and...
by Bruce | March 18, 2016 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Recruiting, Strategy
When an especially provocative and ingenious piece is published analyzing a noteworthy aspect of the sea BigLaw swims in, one may feel an obligation to one’s readers to weigh in on the conversation. Particularly when the original piece was published under...
by Bruce | December 10, 2015 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Recruiting
This will not be a lecture. However. In the course of navigating published analysis and coverage of our beloved industry, I can rely on regularly coming across pat assertions displaying such frightful ignorance of basic economics that I’m forced to conclude the...
by Bruce | August 26, 2015 | Articles, Finance, Partnership Structures, Recruiting
The AmLaw rankings have been with us for over thirty years, and despite the evergreen complaints about their design, purpose, impact, and reliability, to our knowledge no one has ever tried to systematically ask AmLaw firms themselves whether and to what extent they...