by Bruce | December 19, 2010 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
A few days ago LegalWeek wrote about whether the “global law model helps or hinders the top-level adviser:” In other words, whether the more commercially minded we all become as lawyers and as firms, the less room there is for the classic strategic...
by Bruce | August 21, 2010 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Strategy
Copious have been the articles about BigLaw partners decamping to start their own firms, but when the story migrates from the legal press (among which I count law.com (comprising The American Lawyer, the National Law Journal, etc.) The Lawyer, LegalWeek, the...
by Bruce | March 12, 2010 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
Not every day do we get what appears to be good news on the much bruited-about topic of the US’s global competitiveness. But courtesy of today’s FT we have just that, in New York ties with London for finance crown. A consultancy with the...
by Bruce | October 26, 2009 | Articles, Business Models, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Partnership Structures
According to the most recent fossil record discoveries, life on Earth dates back about 3,450-million years. But for about the first 85% of that time span, organisms were extremely simple, composed of individual cells, occasionally organized into colonies. Pretty...
by Bruce | June 15, 2009 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, Strategy
Today we have an extremely unusual–for Adam Smith, Esq.–guest column. Indeed, if memory serves, this is only the third column in the history of this site (5 years, nearly 1,000 columns) not written by me. Leigh Dance is today’s...