by Bruce | April 18, 2018 | Articles, Latin America, Leadership, Strategy
April is the cruelest Latin America month. This month has taken and is taking me to Santiago, Chile, Bogota, Colombia, and Sao Paulo, Brazil, traveling with Adam Smith, Esq.’s Director in Latin America, Antonio Leal Holguin. (Antonio splits his time between Santiago...
by Bruce | April 4, 2018 | Articles, Question of the Month
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by Bruce | March 26, 2018 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Practice Group Management
My favorite law in the whole world is the Law of Unintended Consequences. I suspect I’m so fond of it because it’s intrinsically perverse, it smotes the smartest people (maybe especially the smartest people), it’s of universal applicability, and it shouldn’t be that...
by Bruce | March 9, 2018 | Articles, Finance, Ineffable, Just Plain Interesting
John Adams notably wrote that “facts are stubborn things.” Words, however, can be fluid, flexible, and subject at times to arbitrary diktat. This last sense was famously expressed in Alice in Wonderland “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather...
by Bruce | March 6, 2018 | Articles, Finance, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Recruiting
Our good friends at Leopard Solutions have just come out with their annual recap of the law firm competitive landscape. If you don’t know Leopard, they have one of the most rigorously researched and scrupulously maintained databases there is to be had on a rich...
by Bruce | March 1, 2018 | Articles, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
This piece is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. Shortly after the New Year, a powerful winter storm marched up the East Coast. While certainly a very serious storm, Grayson, as it was named, was far from the worst or most damaging. New York got about 10”...
by Bruce | February 15, 2018 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, M&A, Strategy
The following column is by Antonio Leal Holguin, Director, Adam Smith, Esq. Antonio is based in Santiago, Chile, and spearheads our Latin America practice. Mergers & Alliances: Proceed with Caution Five Steps for Latin American Firms In our recent Latin...
by Bruce | February 10, 2018 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Practice Group Management, Question of the Month
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by Bruce | February 9, 2018 | Articles, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Question of the Month, Strategy
This column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. Dear Readers, Succession planning has been much on our minds lately, in part because it is so rarely on the minds of most law firms or lawyers. And as Bruce noted when posing this question, “according to the...
by Bruce | February 1, 2018 | About the Site, Articles, Profiles of Individuals
With deep sadness and a large dose of shock, I received word early this morning that Alan Hodgart, a friend and colleague, died suddenly and unexpectedly yesterday in London. I have taken the liberty of reproducing below an email I received later this morning from...