Build Back Better: The Covid-19 “Slingshot”
If one is looking for an image to encapsulate the Covid-19 “Slingshot” phenomenon, you will find an embarrassment of riches. But this has to be one of our favorites. In 8 weeks–a heartbeat in a human...
View ArticlePart 3 of Our Series on the 2020 AmLaw 200: Envy and its Discontents
Thomson Reuters’ Legal Executive Institute was kind enough to ask us to undertake some analysis of the recently released AmLaw 200 for 2020. This is our third and final installment in that series,...
View ArticleSummer Reading List
Some of the books that have crossed my desk, and end-table, over the past few months. This year of Coronatide, I define “summer” loosely, as I suspect many of you do. Sometimes it all feels like March...
View ArticleBuild Back Better: For or Against Cities?
The world’s leading business media have written at length—in pieces both speculative and just-the-facts—about scenarios for global metropolitan areas post-Coronatide, and in our humble microdot of the...
View ArticleRuth Bader Ginsburg (1933-2020)
I met RBG only once, but the impact has lasted ever since. In third year of law school, I participated in Moot Court. Our hypothetical case (before the “US Supreme Court”) pitted a Tennessee school...
View ArticleWhat is Strategic Client Management? And Why Should You Care?
The following article is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. Note: This article was recently sent to our subscriber list. (See what you’re missing??) Now that we are squarely in an era of new...
View ArticleIntroducing the Leopard Law Firm Index: Not Your Father’s Law Firm Rating
For years—decades, really—the legal industry has suffered from a woeful shortage of meaningful, truly informative ratings of law firms.[1] Today we intend to change that. Introducing the Leopard Law...
View ArticleToo Many “NewLaw” Players?
No, there are not “too many” NewLaw companies. But there are undoubtedly a lot. This map of the market, courtesy of Catalyst, is three years old and you know the ecosystem has only gotten bigger...
View ArticleBuild Back Better: The Macro View
In our “Build Back Better” series discussing how law firms, and the rest of the legal services industry, may [want to] change once humanity emerges from this surreal Coronatide interregnum, we’ve...
View ArticleWhat’s So Great About the Leopard Index? (And how you can make it work for...
The following column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. The Leopard Law firm Index was launched earlier this month to great acclaim. Many law firms are asking us what it means to them and...
View ArticleBuild Back Better: A Step-Change Asset Price Reset
I come not to bury the office, but to praise it. Kind of. The Covid-19 pandemic has changed human and economic behavior in a myriad of ways, and we can all stipulate that overall we’ve been living...
View ArticleElection 2020 (Part II)
The horror has come now like a storm—what if this night prefigured the night after death—what if all thereafter was an eternal quivering on the edge of an abyss, with everything base and vicious in...
View ArticleLaw Firm Slogans: A Moment of Levity
This column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. Slogans just don’t work for law firms. This from a girl who spent the better part her career working with organizations that often lived or...
View ArticleQuestion of the Month: November 2020–Whither the Office?
You know what to do! Check this space for final results. Polls will remain open until the Board of Elections (yours truly) says they’re closed. No recounts.
View ArticleMore News from the Leopard Index: Diversity is Now Reflected in the Ratings
This column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. Yes, we’re pretty much mercilessly flogging the Leopard Law Firm Index. Why? Because in the information-desert that is Law Land, the Leopard...
View ArticleResilience and the Post-Covid World (Build Back Better)
With vaccines no longer a distant deus ex machina but here today in the cargo holds of aircraft at 35,000 feet, on FedEx and UPS trucks nationwide, and soon at a friendly neighborhood pharmacy near...
View ArticleProtect and Defend
As I imagine did almost all of you, yesterday I watched in shock and disbelief as an armed mob took control of the citadel of our democracy and held it for hours, incited by a President encouraging...
View ArticleLaw Really Is a Client Service Business–So What Are the Implications?...
The following column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. This may come as news, and, perhaps unwelcome news, at that, to many lawyers. That said, again and again and in study after study...
View Article“The Hill We Climb”
By Amanda Gorman, Poet Laureate of the United States: Delivered 20 January 2021 When day comes we ask ourselves Where can we find light in this never-ending shade? The loss we carry, A sea we must...
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