Adam Smith, Esq.

I'm here in The City for the week, having arrived Sunday morning and going home to New York Thursday evening. The purpose is essentially a series of meetings with various firms I'm having with my p...

Last week I had a chance to catch up with Jeroen Plink, the CEO for the US operations of Practical Law Company. Jeroen has been with PLC for over 6 years and, in a previous life, worked as an attor...

Twenty-six years ago Tom Peters and Robert Waterman published In Search of Excellence, and to some extent the genre of writing for business managers hasn't been the same since. If for no other reas...

Consider a nonrandom selection of headlines from The New York Times, The Financial Times, andThe Wall Street Journal:
Citigroup Pays for a Rush to Risk
Citigroup Tries to Steady Stock
Turmoil Co...

I'll be attending the "Globalization of the Legal Profession" conference
at Harvard Law School this Friday (21 November), put on by HLS' Program on
the Legal Profession. Here's the agenda,
with ...

Consider Detroit's Big Three.
Having made what turned out to be bad bets on over-investing in now shunned product lines, they've been conspicuously laying people off, downsizing, attempting to rene...

Our texts for today come from (in inappropriate order) the New Testament, as it were, and Peter Kalis, the chairman of K&L Gates:
"The metaphysical question is whether you can have bulge-bracket ...

1789: US Constitution, Article I, Section 2:
Representatives ... shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which ...

Sometimes there's no substitute for being there.
This couuld be the introduction to a column about why technology, Web 2.0, and collaboration at a distance all add up to precisely zero threat to pl...

In the nearly five-year history of "Adam Smith, Esq.," you could
have counted the number of guest columns on one finger. As of today,
make that two.
The following comes from E. Leigh Dance (see i...