The Outperformers: Lessons from Top Law Firm Leaders steps inside the boardrooms of the legal profession’s most admired and profitable institutions to uncover the approach to leadership, strategic choices and cultural attributes that have propelled these firms to evolve and become stronger versions of themselves. Through candid, first-hand accounts from top law firm leaders, authors Kent Zimmermann, Patrick Smith and Carlyn Kolker examine how visionary management, detailed planning, consen...

Advertising has played a central role in shaping the history of modern media. While often identified with American consumerism and the rise of the 'Information Society', motion picture advertising has been part of European visual culture since the late nineteenth century. With the global spread of ad agencies, moving image advertisements became a privileged cultural form to make people experience the qualities and uses of branded commodities, to articulate visions of a 'good life', and to ...