by Bruce | July 7, 2005 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Outsourcing may currently be at the stage of "mostly talk, little action"—or, what is my theory, those who are doing it aren’t talking—and in the absence of more real-world empirical experience, sometimes the best alternative while...
by Bruce | July 7, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Knowledge Management, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
A fellow who does internal blogging for a Magic Circle firm (I’m not at liberty to say which one), and who is working on a Ph.D. in knowledge management, just asked me these questions via email, and I thought the subject matter would actually be of interest to...
by Bruce | July 6, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
I want to show you another view of the AmLaw 100, this ranked by "Revenue/Lawyer," a trivially simple calculation to perform, but which reveals a wealth of insight. Some of the results are obvious—our friends at 52nd and Sixth have almost lapped...
by Bruce | July 1, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
The UK’s The Lawyer has a weekly poll, which as typically befits such "reader candy" items is usually trivial or gossipy, but this one got my attention: "Last week we asked: The Lawyer revealed this week the resignation of White & Case’s...
by Bruce | June 29, 2005 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Strategy
I promised a more substantive gloss on the AmLaw 100 results, and, while I have not run this by any Ph.D.’s in statistics, I think it tells a fascinating and possibly powerful story—which, more importantly, might even accord with some of the hypotheses and...
by Bruce | June 28, 2005 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Strategy
As promised, here’s the AmLaw 100 for 2005. I’ll have some substantive commentary later today, but for now I’ll primarily limit my gloss to that provided by my friends at American Lawyer Media: "Five Am Law 200 firms posted gross revenue...