by James Bailey | Nov 22, 2014
Congress is often accused of failing to execute the business of the nation either effectively or efficiently. This might be true when it comes to matters of legislation, but I’m not here to critique the machinations of party politics. A critical and yet overlooked...
by James Bailey | Nov 17, 2014
Law firms are big business, nationally and locally. In the United States, more than $250 billion a year is spent on legal services, and the Washington, D.C. region gets more than its fair share of that amount. The D.C. Bar has almost 50,000 active members, and around...
by James Bailey & Carl Lenord | Oct 15, 2014
The market for legal services will never be the same. The ongoing recession decreases demand for services and general counsel spending and increases price pressures from competition and clients. The munificence of yesterday is gone. Layoffs, hiring and promotion...
by James Bailey | Sep 22, 2014
Conventional wisdom holds that during tough times—such as today’s feeble, disheartening economic climate—the lines between right and wrong blur. Reliably decent people, whether on the street or in the boardroom, find the compromising conditions in which they live...
by James Bailey | Sep 13, 2014
(This paper was co-authored with Jon Raelin) When people say that organizational change scares them to death, they’re not kidding. Change means loss—whether it’s loss of colleagues, routines, or benchmarks. And loss reminds us of the ultimate one, life itself....