by Bruce | October 5, 2020 | Articles, Branding, Build Back Better, Business Models, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Recruiting, Strategy
For years—decades, really—the legal industry has suffered from a woeful shortage of meaningful, truly informative ratings of law firms.[1] Today we intend to change that. Introducing the Leopard Law Firm Index, powered by Leopard Solutions and in partnership with...
by Bruce | October 1, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Client Relationships, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Marketing, Strategic Client Management, Strategy
The following article is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. Note: This article was recently sent to our subscriber list. (See what you’re missing??) Now that we are squarely in an era of new possibilities and are thoroughly inoculated to the notion...
by Bruce | September 19, 2020 | About the Site, Articles
I met RBG only once, but the impact has lasted ever since. In third year of law school, I participated in Moot Court. Our hypothetical case (before the “US Supreme Court”) pitted a Tennessee school board with an all-male “academic” track against a 17-year-old girl. ...
by Bruce | September 14, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
The world’s leading business media have written at length—in pieces both speculative and just-the-facts—about scenarios for global metropolitan areas post-Coronatide, and in our humble microdot of the media universe, Adam Smith, Esq. has also published “Whither the...
by Bruce | September 1, 2020 | About the Site, Book Reviews, Just Plain Interesting
Some of the books that have crossed my desk, and end-table, over the past few months. This year of Coronatide, I define “summer” loosely, as I suspect many of you do. Sometimes it all feels like March has been extended for an indefinite run. (September 1 would be...
by Bruce | August 24, 2020 | Articles, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
Thomson Reuters’ Legal Executive Institute was kind enough to ask us to undertake some analysis of the recently released AmLaw 200 for 2020. This is our third and final installment in that series, which we publish with their generous permission. (Their lightly...
by Bruce | August 13, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Strategy, Technology strategy
If one is looking for an image to encapsulate the Covid-19 “Slingshot” phenomenon, you will find an embarrassment of riches. But this has to be one of our favorites. In 8 weeks–a heartbeat in a human lifetime–the penetration of online retail...
by Bruce | August 4, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Practice Group Management
Perhaps I should have said upfront in Part 1, but it’s never too late: In this series I’m discussing the office after humanity has re-emerged from the global isolation ward this dratted pox has lowered on us all. I am not discussing, and have no interest in,...
by Bruce | July 31, 2020 | Articles, Business Models, Finance, Strategy
Our good friends at Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute asked us to offer some reflections on the recently released AmLaw 200 for 2020. Our first, “How Not to Think About the AmLaw 200,” was published in late June and here, republished by their...
by Bruce | July 26, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
The world is well into the greatest “natural experiment” in WFH ever seen. No one glided into this; it came as abruptly as an on-off switch. I’m sure the experience at Adam Smith, Esq. was fairly typical: One week (spanning the end of February and the start of...
