by Bruce | June 10, 2025 | Articles
I don’t know what role, if any, a deity might play in your life, but on my exceptionally short list of immanent beliefs worthy of worship is The Rule of Law: In a nutshell, “no one is above/all are equal before the law.” Its pedigree goes back in human history, way...
by Bruce | June 5, 2025 | About the Site, Adam Smith Himself, Articles
Today he would be 302 years old.
by Bruce | May 26, 2025 | About the Site, Ineffable
by Bruce | April 17, 2025 | Articles
The following article is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq.–Bruce A few years back, we were meeting with the Executive Committee of one of Canada’s Seven Sisters firms. As part of our staying current on trends in Law Land, we often meet with firms...
by Bruce | March 17, 2025 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
Here at Adam Smith, Esq. our robust, and for 20+ years inviolate, policy has been never to comment on current affairs. That ends today. We value no civic principle more highly than the primacy of the Rule of Law. And we have long had the luxury of being able to take...
by Bruce | March 9, 2025 | Articles
The following column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq., LLC—Bruce We were wondering what a help-wanted ad for a Managing Partner[1] would look like; knowing of course, that we’ll never see one. For better or worse, it remains unthinkable for a law...
by Bruce | February 26, 2025 | About the Site, Business Models, Cultural Considerations, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
With yours truly live on camera. Thanks to our “BLaw” friends for making this possible. Feel free to...
by Bruce | February 16, 2025 | Articles, Business Models, Compensation, Finance, Strategy
We’re in the thick of BigLaw’s year-end earnings season, where firms left and right are reporting their FY2024 financial results. The numbers of greatest interest from a macro-industry perspective–setting aside the perennial gossip-intensive zero...
by Bruce | December 17, 2024 | Articles, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
This column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. One of the most enduring and vexing problems we all face (almost all the time) is how to sort through the myriad competing (conflicting?), shifting priorities that arise minute-by-minute and pull us in all...
by Bruce | December 9, 2024 | Articles, Business Models, Finance, Globalization, M&A, Strategy
‘We want to use this combination to forge a new global elite,’ Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) CEO Justin D’Agostino tells Legal Business as he discusses the firm’s ambitious merger plans with New York’s Kramer Levin. So opens LegalBusiness’ main article[1] late last...
