by Bruce | November 25, 2013 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership
The other night I was fortunate enough to be invited to attend the FT’s Innovative Lawyers 2013 (US) awards ceremony at the New York Public Library’s main Fifth Avenue and 42nd branch. (The report was published here the next day in the paper, and you can...
by Bruce | September 26, 2012 | Articles, Law Schools, Recruiting
Through a route too circuitous to rehearse, the Girls’ Guide to Law School asked for an interview. Here are their questions, and our responses: 1. I’m an undergrad who’s trying to decide whether to go to law school. I hear a lot about how...
by Bruce | July 18, 2012 | Articles, Law Schools, Leadership, Recruiting
Comes word (prominently in the WSJ Law Blog) that the New York City Bar Association has formed a task force to “search for a solution” to the simply awful legal job market, in which only 55% of the Class of 2011 had found full-time positions requiring a...
by Bruce | June 25, 2012 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Globalization, Leadership, Strategy
The one question I’m asked most frequently these days, in the aftermath of Dewey, is "Who’s next?" Even if I had an answer to that—which is, as one apocryphal job applicant replied when asked his greatest weakness, "for me to know and...
by Bruce | August 2, 2011 | Articles, Cultural Considerations, Partnership Structures
Here’s one of those Evergreen Topics beloved of management consultants and publishers, and since I’m both it’s irresistible. Better yet, the table is set by the always-worthwhile Alex Novarese, editor in chief of Legal Week, in his current weekly...