by Bruce | October 22, 2010 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, Strategy
I had occasion recently to reflect on the situation facing a fair number of firms who have managing partners (or chairs, or CEO’s, whatever their titles) who have held the post for a relatively long time and where there is, to the outward eye at least, no heir...
by Bruce | October 8, 2010 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
Late last month, as faithful readers know, I spent a week in Sao Paulo, serving the cause of market research for Adam Smith, Esq. Why Sao Paulo and what do I mean by market research? Sao Paulo is the largest city proper in North or South America: Over 11-million...
by Bruce | September 27, 2010 | About the Site, Articles, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Under Pressure – Understanding the Dynamics Between In-House Counsel and Law Firm Management With Former Apple General Counsel, Dan Cooperman and Bruce MacEwen, Founder of Adam Smith, Esq. Please join two of Gerson Lehrman Group’s leading legal experts Dan...
by Bruce | September 22, 2010 | Articles, Business Models, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, M&A, Marketing, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Attentive readers will know that I’m in Sao Paulo this week, where the talk of the town (well, at least the talk of The Bar) is this story which was reported yesterday morning in The Latin Lawyer:Any affiliations between international and Brazilian law firms...
by Bruce | September 6, 2010 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, Strategy
A couple of weeks ago the always perspicacious and often contrarian Alex Novarese of LegalWeek used the occasion of his regular column to opine “Not so demanding–clients aren’t pushing the legal industry forward.” This was swiftly followed by...
by Bruce | August 28, 2010 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, M&A, Strategy
Hogan/Lovells Sonnenschein/Dentons Squire Sanders/Hammonds Proskauer/Berwins Question: Which of these four does not resemble the others? While you’re thinking about that… As LegalWeek described the Hogan/Lovells deal at the time: Aside from its...