Hugh A Simons

June 22, 2018 | Law.com

Ill-conceived moves by four firms jeopardize Middle Law's long-term health.

By Hugh A. Simons

1 minute read

June 15, 2018 | Law.com

Three positive signs this week suggest an intelligent segmentation may be emerging

By Hugh A. Simons

1 minute read

June 12, 2018 | The American Lawyer

By matching Milbank's pay raise, firms in the middle of the Am Law 200 are paving a path to ruin.

By Hugh A. Simons

1 minute read

June 08, 2018 | Law.com

If you said 10-to-1, then less than 50 firms have associate salaries in check.

By Hugh A. Simons

1 minute read

June 07, 2018 | Law.com

A cold-hearted look at market data and dynamics suggests firms would do well to approach the incipient round of salary increases extremely thoughtfully

By Hugh A. Simons

9 minute read

June 05, 2018 | The American Lawyer

Law firms have a lot of room to increase leverage, despite clients pushing back against the use of more junior lawyers.

By Hugh A. Simons and Nicholas Bruch

1 minute read

May 22, 2018 | The American Lawyer

If you thought law firms have been consolidating through merger, think again.

By Hugh A. Simons and Nicholas Bruch

7 minute read

May 18, 2018 | The American Lawyer

From a strategy perspective, there is no rush for law firms to invest in AI, Hugh Simons argues.

By Hugh A. Simons

3 minute read

April 24, 2018 | The American Lawyer

Law firms, long thought to be bifurcating by size and profitability, have actually been separating based on something more simple over the past decade.

By Hugh A. Simons and Nicholas Bruch

9 minute read

March 26, 2018 | Corporate Counsel

Given lawyers' predilection for precedent, the probability of a corporation outsourcing to an ALSP depends on the number of corporations who've already done so.

By Hugh A. Simons

7 minute read