Client service reaches new heights at Clifford Chance, which has obtained a 24-hour alcohol licence. According to its spokes-woman, clients can get a refreshment (code for an “alcoholic beverage”?) at any time of the day or night. 
Now in fairness, there are big deals that close in the wee hours and you would not want
Rainmaking in Johannesburg (September 1)
For friends and clients in South Africa, here is a reminder of how you can register for my presentation, Rainmaking for Professional Service Firms, at The Gordon Institute of Business Science (University of Pretoria, Johannesburg Campus).
I look forward to seeing some old friends and aquaintances and making some new ones.
Date: Thursday 1
“money-grubbing leeches touting for business ”
You may never see the day when Shearman & Sterling or White & Case would call their fellow lawyers “money-grubbing leeches touting for business ” but their names appear among advertisers at a site that did just that today. I do not like lawyer jokes and I tire of lawyers being maligned it seems
Legal Processes Destroy Leaders – Maybe That is Why It Is So Hard to Lead a Law Firm
The techniques managers use to get through a tough agenda in a business context are completely useless in a deposition. To survive the deposition, managers are trained to avoid the tactics they would have used in a business situation. Those who lead law firms are often experiencing more of a deposition environment than a business
Ingenious Alliance to Create and Market Diversity
Bravo to Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice and Molden Holley Fergusson Thompson & Heard for their ingenious alliance to create and market diversity.
Molden Holley is a small and new African-American firm comprised of partners who came from major firms. In what appears to be a brilliant win-win alliance, this new firm will continue to
Lunch with Bruce MacEwen
If you read blogs relating to Law, then you already know the “Adam Smith Esq.
an inquiry into the economics of law firms” offering by Bruce MacEwen. 
Bruce has already blogged a comprehensive report on the lunch we shared on Wednesday and I have little to add except to reinforce that the
ABA offers pre-order discount on The Successful Lawyer
I note that the ABA is offering a discount for early orders of my new book, The Successful Lawyer, so I am taking the liberty of providing this link in case you want to exploit the opportunity. 
Guru Richard Susskind Speaks – We Should Listen
Richard Susskind is not short on credentials. Richard has a first class honours degree in law from the University of Glasgow and a doctorate in law and computers from Balliol College, Oxford. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and of the British Computer Society, and was awarded an OBE in the
Roll On Friday: Belgian firm issues superb dress-down memo
This Belgium firm not only issued a memo that would probably not be PC in the USA but appointed a “dress czar” to boot. 
Visit Roll On Friday’s full posting for a more complete story. You might want to circulate it in your own firm as a not-so-subtle hint to those who equate casual with
My Computing Hits the Big Screen (thanks Apple)
Now, imagine you have the best computer in the world, a 17″ Apple G4 lap top. 
Now imagine (I get chills as I type this) that you add a 23″ Cinema Display by Apple: 
Now imagine that both work seemlessly together so that you can move images from one to the other effortlessly, looking at