by Bruce | November 16, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
Back to the Eurozone. (Yes, we have to, depressing as it is.) For starters (courtesy of the indomitable Martin Wolf in the FT) There’s nothing to like about any of these four charts. The only point I would add to what you can all too plainly see...
by Bruce | November 11, 2011 | Articles, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, Strategy
Last week I had the privilege of attending the unveiling of the Financial Times US Innovative Lawyers 2011 awards here in town. This is an award they’ve been doing in the UK for many years, and I was glad to see it imported across the pond; this was Year 2 of...
by Bruce | October 29, 2011 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
This morning brought the release of Hildebrandt’s quarterly “Peer Monitor” index for 3Q2011, showing a drop of 6 points to 56 (anything below 65 is deemed a negative operating environment). In a nutshell, the problem was that demand...
by Bruce | October 17, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Marketing, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Adam Smith, Esq. and David Freeman Consulting Group are teaming up to conduct a unique survey of the legal profession’s business practices that you might find extremely valuable. If you’re reading Adam Smith, Esq., we don’t need to tell you that law...
by Bruce | October 11, 2011 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Law Schools, Leadership, Recruiting, Strategy
Here are two things we know: First, the rise of the Legal Process Outsourcers–and other nontraditional ways of accomplishing legal work–has not only arrived for keeps, but is accelerating. Consider that all of the conceivable possibilities for...
by Bruce | September 9, 2011 | Articles, Finance, Practice Group Management, Strategy
It’s quite the fashion to want to learn from what Google does, but because so much of what it does is thoroughly sui generis, true opportunities to adopt some of their management wisdom are fewer and farther between than many breathless business correspondents...