The Adventure of Strategy

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  • International Initiatives

    Greetings from Atlanta GA today, where I am the speaker at a luncheon organized by the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA) on current and emerging global trends and their likely impact on the legal profession…

  • Waltz off, retire, play golf, go yachting .... or not

    The prospect of non-lawyers being allowed to own businesses that dispense legal services in England & Wales is leading to a comprehensive re-examination of how one values a law firm. I wrote an article on…

  • Exciting Changes in Edge International

    My partners and I are delighted to announce several positive and exciting changes in Edge International : The first is that we have decided to dispense with our quarter-century old "gunsight" logo and re-brand with…

  • Social Media Revolution

    My friend and colleague Gerry Riskin has just posted a video similar to the Shift Happens video of a year or two back, specifically about social networking. It is compelling and important information for those…

  • Debt Clock

    Fascinating .... as much as an example of excellence in the communication of complex data as the content itself. Imagine having a tool like this for your firm's performance measurements .... U.S. Debt Clock :…

  • Patrick Lamb comments on my 'Convergence' article

    Patrick Lamb of Valorem Law Group (a Chicago based litigation boutique with some very different ideas about legal practice,) dragon-slayer of the billable hour, recently nominated ABA 'legal rebel' and author of blog In Search…

  • Convergence

    Attached is an article that I wrote as the cover article of the current edition of FD Legal in London. I have received gratifyingly positive feedback to it from managing partners and executive directors on…

  • The Art of Retaining Laterals

    One thing seems certain from the daily law newswires that pass through my "inbox" : Top talent has become even more mobile than usual. Lateral hires abound at quite a few firms financially robust enough…

  • The Number ....

    In 2004, in the aftermath of the Enron / Worldcom / Arthur Andersen etc debacle, a book that I read by Alex Berenson and Mark Cuban titled The Number: How the Drive for Quarterly Earnings…

  • Who says firms cannot change fundamentally?

    I snapped this picture of a Daily Telegraph advertisement on a train station in England during my last trip over there and just posted it on Facebook. A couple of people have commented on it…