by Bruce | November 19, 2008 | Articles, Globalization, Law Schools, Leadership, Strategy
I’ll be attending the "Globalization of the Legal Profession" conference at Harvard Law School this Friday (21 November), put on by HLS’ Program on the Legal Profession. Here’s the agenda, with some notables on the program...
by Bruce | November 15, 2008 | Adam Smith Himself, Articles, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
Consider Detroit’s Big Three. Having made what turned out to be bad bets on over-investing in now shunned product lines, they’ve been conspicuously laying people off, downsizing, attempting to renegotiate credit lines, and...
by Bruce | November 11, 2008 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Our texts for today come from (in inappropriate order) the New Testament, as it were, and Peter Kalis, the chairman of K&L Gates: "The metaphysical question is whether you can have bulge-bracket Wall Street firms without Wall Street," says Kalis....
by Bruce | October 23, 2008 | Articles, Finance, Strategy
I am happy to re-publish the press release issued this morning by ThomsonReuters reporting on a new alliance we have struck. For my purposes, the value of this will be being able to offer you, my readers, an additional perspective on legal industry market conditions...
by Bruce | October 22, 2008 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
We are surely living in times of manic-depressive equity and fixed-income markets ("We’ve made the future safe for Western financial institutions!" "No, we haven’t!). New York City itself can seem to be suffering from one gigantic case...
by Bruce | October 10, 2008 | Articles, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Today’s Wall Street Journal profiles H. Rodgin “Rog” Cohen, Chairman of Sullivan & Cromwell. Here at “Adam Smith, Esq.,” we’re not into gossip and we’re not into profiling celebrities (well, celebrities in our world,...