by Bruce | February 28, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
If your firm is in a comfort zone where doing things 5% or 10% or even 15% better next year will suffice, stop reading because I’m going to be talking about transformation. Transformations may be confused with "managing change," but I’d...
by Bruce | February 23, 2007 | Articles, Book Reviews, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
The relentless onslaught of business and management books often feels (to me, at least) like standing at the bottom of the sluiceways of the Grand Coulee Dam. Fortunately, all but a tiny slice of the dead-tree armada is utterly inconsequential. Of the...
by Bruce | February 21, 2007 | Articles, Knowledge Management, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
This morning I delivered the keynote at the Ark Group’s two-day conference starting here in New York, "Best Practices & Management Strategies for Legal Library & Information Service Centers." My keynote was titled "The Law Library of the...
by Bruce | February 16, 2007 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
"I’ve become accustomed in the last six years to facing the presumption that a profession cannot be a business in its true sense. It is quite a common assertion, made equally by a number from within our own profession. It is underpinned by the belief that...
by Bruce | February 14, 2007 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Profiles of Individuals, Strategy
Last month I had a chance to sit down with Pete Kalis, Chairman and Global Managing Partner of K&L Gates, for nearly two hours—and don’t think for a moment that we even scratched the surface of all we wanted to discuss. The pretext for our meeting was...
by Bruce | February 9, 2007 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Time to play "Name That Firm:" Here are some clues. “They are definitely the firm to watch,” said the managing partner of one leading New York firm recently overtaken by [Firm X] in the profit charts. “Even though they recognize the...