by Bruce | April 15, 2017 | About the Site, Articles
The agenda for the launch event of Tomorrowland in the UK is shaping up—it will be the morning of Thursday 27th April in London—and although registration is alas closed (the venue reached capacity), I wanted to share a few of the particulars with you. Riverview Law...
by Bruce | April 10, 2017 | Articles, Business Models, Leadership, Strategy
Rarely do I snag anything from The New York Times or The Wall Street Journal as an entree into an essay on Adam Smith, Esq. (not because there’s anything the least wrong with them, but because I figure you’ve probably already seen it), but rules are made...
by Bruce | April 3, 2017 | Articles, Book Reviews, Strategy, Technology strategy
You are warmly invited to attend the City of London launch event for our third and latest book, the just-published Tomorrowland: Scenarios for law firms beyond the horizon. Thursday 27 April 8:30 am In the heart of the City of London (venue to be finalized) We hope...
by Bruce | March 28, 2017 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures
One of the things we do a lot of here—and seemingly more of in the past 24 months or so—is helping firms sort out, reform, amend, optimize, throw-away-and-start-fresh, their partnership compensation systems. And in every engagement of that sort, we try to keep two...
by Bruce | March 17, 2017 | Articles, Business Models, Compensation, Finance, Partnership Structures
This is a guest column by a very good friend of Adam Smith, Esq., Richard Rapp, who was President and CEO of NERA Economic Consulting for 18 years (1988-2005), during which time the firm grew to global scale. Richard now co-heads Veltro Advisors, a law firm...
by Bruce | March 15, 2017 | Articles
Customarily, albeit not religiously, we share with readers a “Letter From ________” when we return from a plausibly serious trip to another major metropolitan. Herewith our first from Bogota, Colombia. For orientation purposes, Bogota is a 5—6 hour flight...
by Bruce | March 6, 2017 | About the Site, Articles, Cultural Considerations, Globalization
Recently we had the pleasure to announce the arrival of Antonio Leal Holguin as a Director of Adam Smith, Esq., based primarily in Bogota, Colombia. La Republica published an interview with Antonio this morning; it’s one of, if not the, most widely read...
by Bruce | February 22, 2017 | About the Site, Articles, Book Reviews
It’s our great pleasure—you can take this to the bank, as they say—to let you know we have just published our latest book, Tomorrowland: Scenarios for law firms beyond the horizon. It’s the third book from Adam Smith, Esq., following Growth Is Dead: Now What? (2013)...
by Bruce | February 17, 2017 | About the Site, Articles, Publications
With great pleasure, we’d like to officially welcome Antonio Leal Holguin to the Adam Smith, Esq. team. Antonio is a Director of Adam Smith, Esq. based in Bogotá, Colombia. He’s a lawyer and law firm consultant with prior experience working in the...
by Bruce | February 16, 2017 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership
What do you think this describes? “a set of basic tacit assumptions about how the world is and ought to be that is shared by a set of people and determines their perceptions, thoughts, feelings and, to some degree, their overt behavior.” If you guessed...
