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...
by Bruce | July 10, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Practice Group Management, Recruiting
We will be participants on a webinar about the inefficiencies in traditional practices in entry-level recruiting and how firms might “build back better” in that area in the new reality. In particular, we will be discussing more data-driven approaches to...
by Bruce | July 6, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Cultural Considerations, Knowledge Management, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Recruiting
The other day we were presenting a webinar (what else?) on “The Lawyer of the Future” to a firm’s summer associate class, now in the midst of their remote (what else?) June and July program, and the quite rational question came up, “What do associates need to know?”...
by Bruce | June 26, 2020 | Articles, Finance
Our friends and colleagues at Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute were kind enough to ask us to provide some of our thoughts on the recently released 2020 AmLaw 200. Installment #1 of 2 is now available at their site and we invite you to take a...
by Bruce | June 19, 2020 | Articles
On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers led by Major General Gordon Granger landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. This was two and a half years after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation.
by Bruce | June 5, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Regular readers are familiar with our periodic custom of penning “Letters from…”when we’ve spent a meaningful amount of time in “…” and want to offer some observations, insights, and commentary on that particular city and market. We’re not traveling. That can mean...
by Bruce | June 5, 2020 | Articles
Born June 5*, 1723, Kirkcaldy, Scotland. Happy 297th! *For the pedantic in the crowd, “June 5” is subject to a certain degree of flexibility in interpretation. It’s the date on which his baptism was recorded as having taken place, and given the...
by Bruce | May 26, 2020 | Articles, Build Back Better, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
A premise of our “Build Back Better” focus du jour (actually, du l’annee) is that we’ve already drastically changed many things about how we conventionally worked, so we can change more. McKinsey has also been thinking (and writing) about this...
by Bruce | May 25, 2020 | Articles
by Bruce | May 18, 2020 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Technology strategy
We’ve written that it’s not quite true that we know nothing about “the other side” of this global pox, and currently holding the pole position among things we abruptly realized will look different is that as of, say, 10 weeks ago, we all were used to large-scale,...
