by Bruce | March 16, 2020 | Articles, Ineffable, Just Plain Interesting, Leadership
At times, and now is emphatically one, when America is challenged we seem to take forever to get up off our haunches and begin the process of trying to wrest back control of the chaos and turn back the threat. Our response is spastic, uncoordinated, at cross...
by Bruce | March 2, 2020 | Articles, Business Models, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Technology strategy
You do have one, right? In just the past few days, we’ve heard a few firms volunteer that (a) clients are inquiring about their business continuity plans; (b) they’re dusting their plan off; (c.i.) they’re making sure they have one (or [c.ii.]...
by Bruce | February 28, 2020 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, NewLaw, Strategy
Legal Business’s retrospective on the 2010s (“The Vision Thing”) opens thus: The last decade emerged with the shockwaves of the banking crisis still making themselves felt on the profession. Having just made a series of job cuts in major markets the...
by Bruce | January 27, 2020 | About the Site, Articles
The following column was written by Antonio Leal Holguin, Director of Latin America for Adam Smith, Esq. Back in the early 2010s I was practicing at a family-owned law firm in Bogota, Colombia. As I became increasingly interested in law firm management, I began...
by Bruce | January 21, 2020 | Articles
Friday, March 7, 1788 A. Hamilton To the People of the State of New York: […] A well-constituted court for the trial of impeachments is an object not more to be desired than difficult to be obtained in a government wholly elective. The subjects of its...
by Bruce | January 15, 2020 | Articles, Branding, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
This article is co-authored by Bruce MacEwen, President, Janet Stanton, Partner and Antonio Leal Holguin, Director – Adam Smith, Esq. Lots of folks have their “Year of….” custom, often retrospectively, but here at Adam Smith, Esq., we’re more...
by Bruce | December 13, 2019 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Not to name names, but does it strike you as it does me that we’re in the midst of a global surfeit of senior leaders behaving badly? Almost every domain of human endeavor seems tarnished, or worse, by malfeasance, broken trust, power abused, or even...
by Bruce | November 13, 2019 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Strategy, Technology strategy
Ten years ago (five?) the role of “Chief Innovation Officer” was almost unheard-of. Now hardly a week goes by without a firm announcing the appointment of so-and-so to that role and title. But what exactly Is a “CINO” and where do (where...
by Bruce | October 28, 2019 | Articles, Business Models, Question of the Month
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by Bruce | October 23, 2019 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Law Schools, Question of the Month
The following column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. Maybe lawyers didn’t go on play dates when they were little. (Maybe they didn’t want to.) And, once they get through law school, any shred of esprit de corps has been beaten out of them. This may...
