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Although more than enough has been written about the impending demise of Dewey and the relative causes, I decided to go ahead and add my 2 cents to the dialog.
A recent blog post on the subject caught my eye. It made the assertion that, “Whether it’s Davis’s earlier “10-to-1″ spread, the
I saw an interesting visual of where all the Dewey & LeBoeuf partners went on a Thomson Reuters’ site earlier today. The graphic illustrates the firms that picked up the laterals, the names of the lateral partners, and their practice areas. The Dewey situation has been like watching a train slowly wreck, day after day,
If you’re an academic with twenty-six peer-reviewed articles sitting out there, what’s the next thing you want to do? If you are creative, you turn that into a potential twenty-seventh paper by doing an experiment on them. At least that’s what Melissa Terras from the London School of Economics and Science (LSE) did. Terras wanted
A couple of months ago, I found myself in New York with no obligations for the night and I thought I’d go catch a band at a local club. Sounded like a simple thing to do… I assumed that I could just simply walk down the street and wander blindly into the first club I
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One of my best memories of my dad was from the summer he told us he wasn’t going to fix the TV.
It had broken at the end of the school year when I was 13. The horror–it was 1975 and, in those days, all we had to look forward to was
The more I read of Andy Hines’ post on “Some thoughts on narcissistic leaders,” the more I smiled at what he was writing, and started thinking of connections between leadership, values, personality and generations. Andy is a Lecturer and Executive-in-Residence at the University of Houston’s Graduate Program in Futures Studies, and is the
If only I had an “empty shelves” photo to submit. But alas, in this regard my law firm library is way ahead of the curve, as we shed hundreds of books several years ago, and I did not take pictures of those empty shelves.
I agree with the suggestion in the Shed West Era Photo
Have you ever been involved in creating a practice group with all of the jockeying and politics that is involved?
Don’t you just wish that you wish that you could cast it all aside and just “get ‘er done”, as we Texans like to say?
Well, in my little dream world, I would create my
Based on some job ads we have recently seen, it appears Axiom is establishing a presence in Texas. Axiom, as you may recall, is an alternative provider of legal-type services and new breed of competitor to law firms. They have a very interesting business model and have been quite successful in other markets.
Texas firms
I just finished reading David King Keller’s The Associate as Rainmaker: Building Your Business Brain, and I just want to tear it up–but I mean this in a GOOD way.
Full of checklists and step-by-step guides on how to develop your own business development plan, the appendices alone are worth the $100 sticker price.