Bruce Stachenfeld

Bruce Stachenfeld is the managing partner of Duval & Stachenfeld LLP, which is an approximately 70-lawyer law firm based in midtown Manhattan. The firm is known as "The Pure Play in Real Estate Law" because all of its practice areas are focused around real estate. With over 50 full-time real estate lawyers, the firm is one of the largest real estate law practices in New York City. You can contact Bruce by email at thehedgehoglawyer@gmail.com.

Posts by Bruce Stachenfeld

Biglaw
What To Do If You Get Laid Off -- Or If You Think You Might Get Laid Off

Don’t reach out to anyone until you take steps to make yourself hot property when you start speaking to people.

By Bruce Stachenfeld
Biglaw
Repurposing Associates During Downturns

Associates, if your work has dried up in your day job, don’t sit around.

By Bruce Stachenfeld
Sponsored
Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve

The rise of remote work has dramatically reshaped the relationship between Lawyers and Law Firms, see how Scale LLP has taken the steps to get…

From The Team at Scale LLP
Biglaw
Work From Home = Dead Law Firm

Working at home, to your bosses, can make you seem nothing more than a fungible billing unit.

By Bruce Stachenfeld

Boutique Law Firms
Netflix Has It Right With Firm Values -- Does Your Law Firm?

Does your law firm do what Netflix is trying to do? Meaning really hiring and promoting based on these values?

By Bruce Stachenfeld
Biglaw
Where Good Ideas Come From

A law firm with a good chance of success will have seeking ideas in its DNA.

By Bruce Stachenfeld

Boutique Law Firms
For Heaven’s Sake, Do NOT Ask Clients What They Want!!!

Asking clients what they want many times over the years -- with close to no exceptions -- has been a total waste of time.

By Bruce Stachenfeld
Biglaw, Technology
Innovation At Law Firms -- Yuk

I have been around for eons now in the legal world, but I haven't yet heard of a client coming to a law firm -- or leaving a law firm -- because its technology was superior or inferior.

By Bruce Stachenfeld
Boutique Law Firms
The Best Of The Best (Part II)

How do you build a network? Keep track of everyone you meet in your industry and then interact with that network positively.

By Bruce Stachenfeld

Sponsored

Legal AI: 3 Steps Law Firms Should Take Now

If 2023 introduced legal professionals to generative AI, then 2024 will be when law firms start adapting to utilize it. Things are moving fast, so…

From LexisNexis

Sponsored

Is The Future Of Law Distributed? Lessons From The Tech Adoption Curve

The rise of remote work has dramatically reshaped the relationship between Lawyers and Law Firms, see how Scale LLP has taken the steps to get…

From The Team at Scale LLP

Sponsored

Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace

How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use.

From LexisNexis

Sponsored
Early Adopters Of Legal AI Gaining Competitive Edge In Marketplace

How to best leverage generative AI as an early adopter with ethical use.

From LexisNexis
Biglaw
The Best Of The Best

The more successful one becomes, the easier it is to become still more successful.

By Bruce Stachenfeld
Boutique Law Firms
Failure Is The Key To Success

If your firm is a place where failure is not celebrated, good luck and get out as soon as you can.

By Bruce Stachenfeld
Biglaw
What Is The Owner Of A Law Firm?

If you are spending a lot of time complaining but little time doing anything to address whatever it is you are complaining about, you really aren’t thinking as an owner.

By Bruce Stachenfeld
Biglaw
A Foolish Thing That Smart (Young) Lawyers Do

For someone so smart you did something pretty dumb didn’t you? Why on Earth would you do this? It makes no sense at all, does it?

By Bruce Stachenfeld
Biglaw
Jean-Jacques Rousseau And The Law Firm Of The Future

In return for giving up your rights, you get much more from the whole.

By Bruce Stachenfeld