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Question of the Month: Why So Much Excess Capacity (Still)?

According to the recently released 2018 Altman Weil “Law Firms in Transition” (an annual survey  they’ve been doing for a decade with invaluable longitudinal data at this point), in 51% of firms...

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Summer Reading List

In the spirit of reader service, for those of you who might find the summer season has graced you with a bit more leisure time than usual, and on the  hunt for a good book, your editor (that would be...

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Summer Reading List

Some of the books that have crossed my desk, and end-table, over the past few months. This year of Coronatide, I define “summer” loosely, as I suspect many of you do.  Sometimes it all feels like March...

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Book Review: “BigLaw: Money & Meaning in the Modern Law Firm”

Across my desk a few weeks ago came BigLaw: Money & Meaning in the Modern Law Firm by Mitt Regan and Lisa Rohrer (U. Chicago Press: 2021).  (I have known Mitt, a law Professor at Georgetown, for...

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Summer Reading List

This column is becoming something of a tradition, and traditions must be maintained. On my desk, and thereabouts, these days: Doom: The Politics of Catastrophe, Niall Ferguson Why bureaucratic and...

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China 101

If you’re like me, you may be troubled at the thought of all that you do not know or understand about China.  And, if you realize the depth of your ignorance on something so important, you ask the...

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Summer Reading List

This column is becoming something of a tradition, and traditions must be maintained. Sitting on various handy tables and shelves around the office and the den at home are, among many other things, the...

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“Adam Smith’s America,” Glory Liu: Book Review

Across my desk a couple of weeks ago came an advance copy of Glory Liu’s Adam Smith’s America: How a Scottish Philosopher Became an Icon of American Capitalism (Princeton University Press, Princeton...

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Summer Reading List

In keeping with our custom at Adam Smith, Esq. of publishing a summertime diversion in the form of a selective list of what we’ve been reading lately, herewith the 2023 installment: two novels and two...

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Summer Reading List 2024

In keeping with our tradition at Adam Smith, Esq. of publishing a summertime diversion in the form of a selective list of what we’ve been reading lately, herewith the 2024 installment.  Two novels  one...

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