by Bruce | March 8, 2010 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
This weekend I received by courier from the UK the just-released report The Next Wave: Globalization After the Crisis, published by Jomati Consultants LLP, the London-based affiliate of Adam Smith, Esq.  If you don’t know Jomati, you should:  Based in the...
by Bruce | February 23, 2010 | Articles, Compensation, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
Earnings Season is now in full throat, and we’re beginning to see a remarkably consistent pattern emerge: Revenues essentially flat to down 10% Profits flat to slightly down-but PPP flat or even up a bit I generalize, of course. But here is some of the evidence...
by Bruce | February 19, 2010 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
The Law Society of England & Wales recently published Nick Jarrett-Kerr’s Strategy for Law Firms: After the Legal Services Act, and Nick was kind enough to send me a copy for my perusal. (Disclosure: I’ve known Nick for years, although we have never...
by Bruce | February 5, 2010 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
Fourteen years ago, Greenberg Traurig wasn’t in the AmLaw 100, and today it’s #10. Their CEO during this entire period–until he stepped down lastweek–was Cesar Alvarez, now age 62. When he became CEO of the firm, it was a “small but...
by Bruce | January 23, 2010 | Articles, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Turbulent.. Challenging. Unprecedented. Once-in-a-career event. Paralyzing. Opportunity. However you want to characterize the period we’ve experienced and are still working our way through and out of–and shall be, I predict, for a few more...
by Bruce | January 21, 2010 | About the Site, Articles, Finance, Globalization, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Speaking of interesting conferences in New York, on Monday, February 1st, from 1:00–5:00 pm, LexisNexis is hosting a “Business of Law” Symposium at the New York Hilton, Sixth Avenue @ 53rd Street, home of the annual LegalTech confab, which this flies...