by Bruce | November 11, 2014 | About the Site, Articles, Book Reviews
Will you be in Dallas Wednesday, December 3 at 6:00 pm? If so, join me for discussion and cocktails around the emerging state of the law firm market. It will be at the historic Belo Mansion in the heart of downtown Dallas. From the description of the event: The “New...
by Bruce | November 6, 2014 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Strategy
“lim•in•al” (1) of or relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process; (2) occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold. From the Latin limen/liminis: threshold, doorway. You may not have thought of it this way, but we are...
by Bruce | October 28, 2014 | Articles, Marketing, Strategy
Legal Business recently ran a piece on leadership in law firms which—surprisingly for articles on this topic—actually succeeded in getting beyond bromidic pablum. I commend it to you in its entirety, but meanwhile I want to talk about a particular perspective they...
by Bruce | October 27, 2014 | About the Site, Articles, Book Reviews, Strategy
Will you be in Chicago Thursday, November 20 at 6:00 pm? If so, you must come to what promises to be an engaging discussion about the rapidly evolving market dynamics of Law Land. Panelists will include: It will be at The Standard Club, 320 South Plymouth Court. From...
by Bruce | October 22, 2014 | Articles, Just Plain Interesting, Strategy
Around this time of year the Nobel Prize in Economics is awarded, and while we don’t always cover it here on Adam Smith, Esq., this year’s is worth a note. As everyone who cares about these things an iota knows by now, the winner was Jean Tirole of...
by Bruce | October 16, 2014 | Articles, Client Relationships, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
The other day we were in a meeting with the head of strategy and marketing and the Chair of an AmLaw 100, and the Chair mentioned an extremely promising introductory meeting he’d had a few days earlier with the General Counsel of a well-recognized company....
by Bruce | October 10, 2014 | Articles, Branding, Business Models, Client Relationships, Leadership, M&A, Marketing, Partnership Structures, Strategy
A few weeks ago reports surfaced about a motion seeking to compel Norton Rose Fulbright to withdraw from representation of its client Duke University in a case brought against the university by the estate of John Wayne, which wants the right to market alcoholic...
by Bruce | October 8, 2014 | Articles, Technology strategy
I’m often asked—on a panel last month in Europe and on a panel later this month right here in New York at the Law Firm COO & CFO Forum, for example—what I think about “disruption” in the legal industry. Bypassing the obversation that it’s a...
by Bruce | September 30, 2014 | Articles, Business Models, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Gentle Reader: Apologies for not having published more frequently over the past couple of weeks but business has taken us to Paris, the south of France, London, Portland, and Seattle–with 48 hours in New York inbetween the European and the Pacific Northwest...
by Bruce | September 25, 2014 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Finance
Whether or not the bruited Bingham/Morgan-Lewis merger is consummated, Bingham as we know it is beginning to cease to exist. While I have no inside information and am not professionally involved in the recent developments, inquiring minds have to ask what has happened...
