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Who Needs To Be Listening To Your Clients? You do.

The following column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. For unfathomable reasons many law firms and lawyers eschew client feedback. The reason we’re baffled by this is that at its most...

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Three Cheers for Black Box Comp

When it comes to partner pay, the first thing everyone salaciously wants to know is “how high is up?”  And second by a nose is probably “Who’s on top and by how much, especially compared to me?”...

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Is the American Legal Profession a Guild?

This is one in our occasional series of excerpts from my yet-to-be-published new book, treating, among other things, the historic roots of our profession tracing back to medieval guilds. I hope you...

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If Supply Grows Faster Than Demand,…

Sometimes it’s the quiet, seemingly unremarkable, things that  ultimately rear up and bite you.   Here may, or may not, be one. Let’s start with this chart from Thomson Reuters redoubtable annual...

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The Myth of the “Equity” Partner

This column is by Janet Stanton, Partner, Adam Smith, Esq. Let’s get something straight from the get-go: “Equity” as it is known in Law Land is a chimera.  Unlike in the other 98% of the economy,...

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The Fable of Starbucks

Few brands are more prominent in our daily lives (well, at least if you’re a Western world urban dweller) than Starbucks.  Its rise to prominence has become standard-issue corporate lore: From its...

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Single Tier is Dead: Long Live Single Tier

Comes word that Cleary Gottlieb is abandoning its increasingly rarefied “single tier” status and will begin naming Non Equity Partners “with  immediate effect.”  The intrepid Roy Strom of Bloomberg Law...

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The 2024 Nobel Prize in Economics Goes To…..

The Nobel in Econ (a/k/a The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel) for 2024 was awarded a few days ago to Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson of MIT and to James Robinson...

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Bloomberg Law Interview on the Non-Equity Tier

With yours truly live on camera. Thanks to our “BLaw” friends for making this possible. Feel free to share.

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Our Existential Moment

Here at Adam Smith, Esq. our robust, and for 20+ years inviolate, policy has been never to comment on current affairs.  That ends today. We value no civic principle more highly than the primacy of the...

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