Excerpt from The Race to the Bottom.org: a professional-faculty-student collaboration . . .
Reasons for This Blog:
- To provide a forum for discussing methods of improving the corporate governance process
- To provide a forum for discussing the role of the Securities and Exchange Commission in the corporate governance process, particularly the role of disclosure
- To provide a forum for discussing the particular role of Delaware in the corporate governance process
- To provide a forum for discussing the use of independent directors in the governance process
- To provide a forum for discussing international governance practices
- To provide a forum for discussing the impact of Sarbanes-Oxley on the governance process
Excerpt from "Law firms tap Internet to forge links to alumni" (subscription required) . . .
The sites are becoming more prevalent as law firms deal with a new reality: Turnover at big law firms is more common. About one quarter of associates who leave big firms take government or corporate jobs. Firms have come to view lawyers who have left as potential assets.
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Aside from generating new business, some firms hope the sites might persuade some lawyers to return to the fold. At O'Melveny & Myers LLP, the firm lets former lawyers know when there are openings that fit their specialty.
Excerpt from "Frames of mind" . . .
"We are all multi-gifted," says the 30-year-old [Vanessa] Race, a Thai-American who earned her masters in neuroscience at Harvard. Race, who speaks Thai and English equally fluently, says her own strongest suit is linguistics.
Indeed, her current career path would appear to bear that out. Apart from working as a researcher and author, she conducts corporate coaching, counsels, writes columns for three publications, owns a school and develops curricula, hosts two radio programmes and teaches archery.. . .
We don't need to follow just one career. It's possible to excel in several fields and have the energy to do them at the same time. I think it would be boring to be stuck in the same job."
The first tools you need for creating genius are simple, she explains.
Excerpt from "Are litigation boutiques a dying breed?" (subscription required) . . .
"I think that the proof is sometimes in the pudding," [Marc] Raspanti said about his firm. "The reason that we've survived so long, frankly, is that we've done more longer with less people.
We've enjoyed great legal success when it came to very significant pieces of litigation. Many times we were outmanned 10, 12 or 15 to one, and because of our environment, we were able to stay connected and serve our client's needs."
. . .Mary Kay Brown saw the benefits of boutiques. Brown and two fellow female litigators left Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney and launched a boutique practice this year.
"I think one of the things that drove us to do this was the ability to be more flexible in servicing our clients, particularly with rate structures," Brown said. "The hourly rate ... just keeps going up and up and up, and we wanted to get some control over that."
Excerpt from M=12-12 . . .
The tendency of business has always been to look at the “pieces” separately. As an example, most businesses treat advertising and sales training as separate departments – pieces – when they’re really just the beginning and end of a single effort at persuasion. . .
Compartmentalization is likewise a problem in medicine, causing doctors to treat symptoms instead of the root disease.
In advertising and medicine we need to step back and look at a bigger picture.
But I believe the opposite is true in the realm of Thought.
Excerpt from Blawg Review #117 . . .
Last week’s host, Corporate Law UK, wrote the Review in iambic pentameter (and possibly inspired Nate Oman’s entry this week about the demise of wigs in the British legal profession). Alas, poetry is well beyond my talents, so we shall have to settle on a different theme.
I decided to use the six amendments from the Bill of Rights that most apply to criminal defense, highlight a historic Supreme Court criminal case, and use the text of the Amendment itself as the springboard for this week’s featured posts.
Excerpt from "How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?" . . .
The flood of writing about leadership continues. It reflects our fascination with what many believe to be the most important influence on organizational performance. In a thought-provoking book published last year, Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert I. Sutton suggest that the overriding impact of leadership on performance is a myth, or at least only a half-truth. 30 years ago, in reviewing research on leadership, Pfeffer concluded at that time that actions of leaders most often explain no more than 10% of performance. Such things as a company's operating environment, the economy in general, or its long-run success or failure account for more of its current performance.
Excerpt from "No" seems to be the hardest word (Interview with William Ury) . . .
Positive thinking is hot. There seems to be an abundance of positive change approaches, for example solution-focused practice, appreciative inquiry, positive psychology, strength-based management, and positive deviance. Does this emphasis on the positive mean that we have agree and go along with everything that we meet on our path? No, says negotiation expert William Ury, . . . .
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