Only three years ago Simmons & Simmons was being written off as the next firm to disappear from the legal landscape. Today it appears confident with a much brighter future. Saira Zaki charts the firm's path through the storm into safer - but still hazardous - waters
April 10, 2002 at 08:03 PM
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The original version of this story was published on Legalweek
Three years ago a well-known partner at a top firm confidently predicted to Legal Week that
Simmons & Simmons had less than a year to live as an independent firm, as it reeled from a spate of senior departures.
Ironically, that same partner has himself fallen on harder times. Poetic justice one might think, but nowadays you would be hard pressed to find a partner from Simmons who is bitter about it.
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