by Bruce | June 18, 2008 | Articles, Finance, Leadership, Practice Group Management, Strategy
Over at LegalOnRamp there’s an interesting discussion underway about the extent to which GC’s do—or don’t—seek genuine innovation in the way BigLaw provides services. I’m taking the liberty of republishing it here (with...
by Bruce | June 13, 2008 | Articles, Globalization, Strategy, Technology strategy
Did you know that the venerable Booz Allen & Hamilton has truncated its name to "booz&co."? Not only abandoning a name with tremendous recognition and brand equity but, in a "what were they thinking!?" blunder, shining a spotlight on...
by Bruce | June 11, 2008 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Practice Group Management, Strategy, Technology strategy
In the course of two hour-plus long interviews over the past couple of weeks with Ray Bayley, co-founder of NovusLaw, I learned that everything I thought I knew about outsourcing was wrong. Or rather, that I hadn’t thought about outsourcing, really, at all. Read...
by Bruce | June 7, 2008 | Articles, Finance, Globalization, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, Profiles of Individuals, Strategy
Last week I had the opportunity to sit down with Allen Fagin, Chairman of Proskauer Rose. Allen is Columbia BA summa cum laude, and Harvard Law JD cum laude at the same time he earned an MPP from Harvard’s JFK School of Government. He’s worked at Proskauer...
by Bruce | June 4, 2008 | Articles, Compensation, Cultural Considerations, Finance, Globalization, Strategy
Chambers has a nice seasonal report it mails to subscribers, but it doesn’t provide it online. This is a pity (and, I predict, a practice with a finite half-life), but one of the articles in the issue I recently received (August 2007 for those of you following...
by Bruce | June 3, 2008 | Articles, Globalization, Innovative Managing Partners, Leadership, Strategy
I was invited to attend a presentation on "Innovation in Legal Service Delivery" last Wednesday at Allen & Overy’s New York offices, where the conversation was kicked off by four speakers: Ward Bower of Altman-Weil discussing their Legal...