With BigLaw reeling from crisis after crisis in the past five years, Bruce MacEwen’s “Growth is Dead” series published on his blog for Adam Smith, Esq. certainly created quite a buzz, and quite a bit of soul-searching, among observers of the legal industry. (The series has since been edited and cast in book form.) His thought-provoking and stimulating take on problems facing the economic model of law firms comes from a career spent both working in New York firms and as in-house counsel for the former powerhouse Morgan Stanley/Dean Witter. He works as a consultant providing strategic-assessment and leadership development services, among others, to large, complex law firms.
