Webinar–Law Land Q1 Performance: What Happened?
We’re happy to report we’ll be part of a panel on: Webinar – Law Land 1st Q Performance: What happened? Wednesday, 13 May 2020 12 noon (US Eastern) Be one of the first to see how early responses to...
View ArticleBe a “Non-Anxious Presence”
The following column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs…” – Rudyard Kipling Ever wondered why clergy seem almost...
View ArticleManager or Leader? Right Now, You Better Be Both
The following column was published on Thomson Reuters’ Legal Executive Institute site on April 20, 2020. We reprint it here by their courtesy. This 2-part series was written by Bruce MacEwen &...
View ArticleWe Do Actually Know a Few Things About the “Other Side”
What we do not know about the surreal period we’re in—“Coronatide” is our King of the Hill name for it—would fill the proverbial book, or actually several. (My sources for what I say, for the record,...
View ArticleIn the Current Crisis, Your Firm Needs You to be Both a Manager & a Leader
In the second part of this two-part series, Thomson Reuters’ Legal Executive Institute published the following article we wrote at their request. We republish it here by their kind courtesy. In the...
View ArticleWebinar–Law Land Q1 Performance: What Happened?
Quick reminder with less than two weeks to go: We’re happy to report we’ll be part of a panel on: Webinar – Law Land 1st Q Performance: What happened? Wednesday, 13 May 2020 12 noon (US Eastern) Be...
View ArticleJoin Us For a Webinar on Litigation in Recessions
Janet and Bruce will be two of the panelists presenting a webinar on litigation in recessions, along with Prof. Eli Wald of the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and two experts in the...
View ArticleBuild. Back. Better.
This column is by Bruce MacEwen and Janet Stanton What do we know now that we did not know in January? Obviously, we know we’re in the grip of a global pandemic, which has precipitated a worldwide...
View ArticleBuild Back Better: Welcome Back to the Office?
We’ve written that it’s not quite true that we know nothing about “the other side” of this global pox, and currently holding the pole position among things we abruptly realized will look different is...
View ArticleBuild Back Better: How to Learn from Coronatide
A premise of our “Build Back Better” focus du jour (actually, du l’annee) is that we’ve already drastically changed many things about how we conventionally worked, so we can change more. McKinsey has...
View ArticleHappy Birthday, Adam Smith!
Born June 5*, 1723, Kirkcaldy, Scotland. Happy 297th! *For the pedantic in the crowd, “June 5” is subject to a certain degree of flexibility in interpretation. It’s the date on which his baptism was...
View ArticleLetter from New York
Regular readers are familiar with our periodic custom of penning “Letters from…”when we’ve spent a meaningful amount of time in “…” and want to offer some observations, insights, and commentary on that...
View ArticleJuneteenth
On June 19, 1865, Union soldiers led by Major General Gordon Granger landed at Galveston, Texas with news that the war had ended and that the enslaved were now free. This was two and a half years after...
View ArticleHow Not to Think About the AmLaw 200
Our friends and colleagues at Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute were kind enough to ask us to provide some of our thoughts on the recently released 2020 AmLaw 200. Installment #1 of 2 is now...
View ArticleBuild Back Better: What Associates Need to Know
The other day we were presenting a webinar (what else?) on “The Lawyer of the Future” to a firm’s summer associate class, now in the midst of their remote (what else?) June and July program, and the...
View ArticleBuild Back Better Webinar: Blow Up Recruiting, Entry Level Follies Edition
We will be participants on a webinar about the inefficiencies in traditional practices in entry-level recruiting and how firms might “build back better” in that area in the new reality. In particular,...
View ArticleBuild Back Better: Whither the Office? (Part 1)
The world is well into the greatest “natural experiment” in WFH ever seen. No one glided into this; it came as abruptly as an on-off switch. I’m sure the experience at Adam Smith, Esq. was fairly...
View ArticleIs the Am Law 200 even a “category?”
Our good friends at Thomson Reuters Legal Executive Institute asked us to offer some reflections on the recently released AmLaw 200 for 2020. Our first, “How Not to Think About the AmLaw 200,” was...
View ArticleBuild Back Better: Whither the Office? (Part 2)
Perhaps I should have said upfront in Part 1, but it’s never too late: In this series I’m discussing the office after humanity has re-emerged from the global isolation ward this dratted pox has...
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