Lessons from Google

by | March 3, 2014 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Recruiting

Loyal readers of Adam Smith, Esq. know that we think there’s much that can be learned for Law Land from other industries. Today’s column is in that vein, and our texts for today come from The New York Times and Above the Law. The first text is Tom...

See Talent. Feed It.

by | January 1, 2014 | Articles, Compensation, Leadership, Recruiting

Turnabout. I recently wrote about how to demoralize, discourage, and disenchant top talent. This is about how to retain that talent. Like the prior column, this one is based on one of the top columns of the year from Strategy + Business, the Booz & Co....

Students Outsmart Professors?

by | December 18, 2013 | Articles, Law Schools, Recruiting, Strategy

Linear extrapolations are widely suspected of being unreliable, but maybe not widely enough. Stated differently, it’s a category error to engage in static, not dynamic, analysis. Stated yet differently, the interesting challenge is almost never to ask,...
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