by Bruce | April 25, 2023 | Articles, Client Relationships, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Ineffable, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Recruiting, Strategic Client Management, Strategy
Ever since “RTO” became a real possibility, I have been firmly and decisively on the fence about the best policy for firms to follow. A free-for-all come and go (or don’t come) as you wish? Sure, why not? We’re all adults here, right? Now my...
by Bruce | September 21, 2022 | Articles, Business Models, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Geography–a “sense of place”–is often taken for granted as the inevitable but fundamentally random by-product of historical happenstance, and almost never appreciated for the strategic dimension it provides–like it or not. Because...
by Bruce | May 2, 2022 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Written with Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. In our first installment in this two-part series, M&A, Globalization, and Another Thing, we posited that although M&A is cyclical, and may be turning down from its stratospheric (and unsustainable) peak of...
by Bruce | January 7, 2022 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Recruiting, Strategy
Every once in awhile, a piece of legal journalism–heck, we’re not grading on a curve here, folks–business and economics journalism with the legal industry as its subject–is so thorough, nuanced, and generously sourced that it demands a tip of...
by Bruce | July 25, 2021 | Articles, Build Back Better, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership
We’ve written that leaving the office was trivial, at least in retrospect–“fire alarm’s going off, everyone leave the building”–but that returning is going to pose one of the most complex...
