by Bruce | January 20, 2010 | Articles, Strategy
On February 1st and 2nd, here in New York, PLI will be presenting what looks to be an all-star cast of speakers at what they’re calling the Law Firm Leaderhsip and Management Institute 2010. More info here. According to the overview: Critical issues to be...
by Bruce | January 11, 2010 | Articles, Finance, Leadership, M&A, Strategy
Before it’s too late to miss the brief window of opportunity for prognostications about the New Year, here’s one more. But first, let’s back up a bit. By almost anyone’s lights, 2009 was dreadful for our beloved industry, even appalling....
by Bruce | January 2, 2010 | Articles, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
As we embark on a brave new year, I thought it condign treatment of 2009 and what lies beyond to spend a few moments on the broader view, and, more specifically, what industries may and may not survive the post-Internet, and more broadly the post-digitalization of...
by Bruce | December 24, 2009 | Articles, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
Many have been the descriptors proposed for the period we’ve been living through since about the middle of 2007, but few strike me as more apt than “turbulence.” Why? Turbulence implies unconscious, or at least unintended, forces at work causing the...
by Bruce | December 17, 2009 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy
In the 1980’s and 1990’s, one often heard the only semi-facetious phrase that “investment bankers are short-term greedy, but lawyers are long-term greedy.” One of the few exceptions to “short term greedy” on the I-Bank side of...
by Bruce | December 9, 2009 | Articles, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Hasn’t the last year and a half been a horrible nightmare? Aren’t you sick and tired of our fallacious infatuation with the “free market”? Maybe we should bring back Glass-Steagall, reinforce Sarbanes-Oxley, create an uber-regulator for the...