In one of the articles that accompanies the report, Nicholas Bruch, senior
analyst at ALM Legal Intelligence, which assisted in compiling the results, and Hugh A. Simons, an industry
analyst and former COO
at Ropes & Gray in Boston, write that 78 percent of the
firms in this year's Am
Law 100 surpassed their pre-recession levels of profits per equity partner — and did so in
large part through management.