by Bruce | May 28, 2014 | Articles, Business Models, Finance, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
Many of you have read or know of our first book, Growth Is Dead: Now What? Law firms on the brink, published early in 2013. We now have a sequel of sorts, just published this week: A New Taxonomy: The seven law firm business models. “A sequel of sorts” in...
by Bruce | May 19, 2014 | Articles, Business Models, Finance, Leadership, Strategy
It has become bromidic to observe that we’ve moved from a linear growth market, ever up and to the right, to one of flat demand (did someone say, “growth is dead?”). We are, in short, in a battle for market share. Welcome to the rest of the economy....
by Bruce | September 23, 2013 | Articles, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, Recruiting
One of the more unusual reactions I’ve gotten to “Growth Is Dead” came from Kate Fritz, Managing Partner of Fenwick & West, who I had the chance to talk to recently. Several people have taken the book’s title a bit too literally, but Kate...
by Bruce | August 30, 2013 | Articles, Business Models, Finance, Leadership, Partnership Structures, Practice Group Management, Recruiting
Sometimes large changes break across the landscape like summer afternoon thunderstorms, seemingly coming from nowhere and definitely getting everyone’s attention: And sometimes they steadily and stealthily accumulate over time, perhaps without anyone ever...
by Bruce | August 29, 2013 | About the Site, Articles, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
On Tuesday, September 24th I will be the keynote speaker at the Law Society of Scotland’s “Law in Scotland” conference in Glasgow. The Society was kind enough to interview me for a profile in their Journal of the Law Society of Scotland, and the...