Adam Smith, Esq.
Adam Smith, Esq. is one of the most highly regarded online publications in the legal industry. Launched in 2004, it has become the preeminent site for thoughtful commentary on law firm economics, generating a third of a million page views per month.
Bruce MacEwen, Adam Smith, Esq. founder, president and author, provides consulting services to law firms in the U.S., U.K. and Canada.
His areas of consulting expertise include: strategy, finance, law firm mergers and acquisitions, globalization, knowledge management, IT strategies, and industry trends. He has authored numerous whitepapers and reports for law firms and other legal organizations, drawing on his broad industry perspective and the nuanced and thoughtful analysis for which he is known.
He helps law firms achieve practical, comprehensive approaches to a wide range of strategic and managerial issues. Some recent engagements have included an extensive ROI analysis of a new KM initiative at an AmLaw 20, including recommendations to enhance the functionality of the new KM system; an analysis of resource allocation, as well as consolidation planning, how to cope with segmentation in the AmLaw 100; and web presence optimization.
Bruce MacEwen has broad experience in the legal industry, having practiced securities law in-house for nearly ten years at Morgan Stanley/Dean Witter; and prior to that practiced litigation and corporate law with two prominent New York law firms. Before founding Adam Smith, Esq., Mr. MacEwen was CEO of a dot-com company.
Mr. MacEwen has written for or been quoted in a broad range of national and legal trade publications, including: The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Bloomberg News, International Herald Tribune, National Law Journal, and ABA Journal. He has been named as one of six charter members of the Editorial Board of the US edition of the UK legal magazine, Managing Partner.
He frequently appears as a speaker at law firm retreats and legal industry conferences addressing strategy, finance, and IT issues. He has lectured at Harvard, Georgetown, and NYU law schools on law firm economics and the realities of a 21st Century law firm.
He is an adjunct professor at SUNY/Stony Brook's Graduate College of Business, where he has taught the core course "Strategic Technology & Innovation" in the MBA program exclusively for law firm leaders.
Mr. MacEwen earned his B.A. in economics, magna cum laude, from Princeton University, his J.D. from Stanford Law School, and he has completed his MBA coursework at NYU's Stern School of Business.
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