Trial lawyer · Firm builder · Author
Miles D. Scully is a nationally recognized trial lawyer, named partner and Chairman Emeritus of Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, and the architect of the first law firm with offices in all fifty states.
He writes and speaks about what happens when capital and artificial intelligence collide with the way legal disputes are priced, staffed, and resolved — and what business leaders should do about it.
About
Miles has tried cases as first chair for some of the world's largest companies and spent the better part of two decades turning a regional San Francisco firm into a national platform. He has been on both sides of litigation economics: inside the courtroom, and inside the business that funds it.
GRSM50 is the platform Miles designed. One firm, one point of contact, and consistent service in every state, built so national clients never have to assemble a patchwork of local counsel. He remains a named partner and Chairman Emeritus of the firm.
GRSM50 and "Your 50 State Law Firm" are trademarks of Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP.Miles has served as first chair in dozens of trials and highly publicized verdicts, representing some of the world's largest companies and many well-known public figures. In 2016 The National Law Journal selected his defense verdict for Urban Outfitters and Anthropologie, a California class action with more than a billion dollars of exposure and a $288 million demand, as one of the most outstanding results in the country.
In 2014 the firm added his name to its own in recognition of his role in its growth. Five years later it became the first law firm with offices in all fifty states, a platform Miles designed and drove. Since then the firm has roughly doubled in size, added twenty offices, climbed from #103 to #70 on the Am Law 100, and in 2026 became the sixth-largest law firm in the country by headcount.
"Our unique 50-state platform has been the primary engine fueling GRSM's meteoric growth."
Recognition
The Litigation Singularity
For a century the economics of litigation have rested on one assumption: legal work is expensive because skilled human hours are scarce. That assumption is failing. Miles calls the moment it fails the Litigation Singularity, and he argues that it will reorder who sues, who settles, and who pays.
Capital
Litigation finance, aggregated plaintiffs, and insurance capital have turned lawsuits into an asset class. Claims that once died for lack of funding now get filed, and filed at scale.
Artificial intelligence
Review, research, drafting, and analysis that took teams of associates now take hours. When the labor that priced a dispute disappears, the price of the dispute changes with it.
Opportunity
Companies that understand the new economics first will settle smarter, try the right cases, and structure their exposure before the plaintiffs' bar does it for them.
The first application of the thesis is transportation. "The Freight Singularity" examines how capital and AI are reshaping trucking and logistics litigation, an industry already living with nuclear verdicts. Further industries follow.
Books & Ideas
A memoir of building a national firm, a series of essays on where litigation goes next, and the published work that preceded them.
How a regional insurance-defense firm became the first law firm in all fifty states, told by the partner who drew the map. A book about growth, risk, and the business of law, written for anyone who has to build something national out of something local.
Coming soon. Publisher inquiries welcome through the contact below.
Selected writing
Speaking
Miles speaks to boards, general counsel, insurers, and the leaders of professional-services firms. Each talk is built from cases he tried and a firm he built, not from slides about either.
Why capital and AI are about to change what a lawsuit costs, who brings one, and how it ends. A forward look at legal risk for the next decade, with the transportation industry as the first case study.
ForBoards and C-suites, general counsel, insurance and reinsurance executives, litigation funders
The decisions, mistakes, and bets behind turning a regional firm into a national one, from the first out-of-state office to the fiftieth. What translates to any professional-services business trying to grow without losing itself.
ForLaw firm and professional-services leadership, partnerships, growth-stage founders
What a trial lawyer wishes every executive understood about how cases are actually won and lost, how juries think about companies, and which decisions made years earlier decide the verdict.
ForExecutives, risk managers, in-house legal teams
Contact
Conference organizers, executive teams, and journalists can reach Miles's office directly. Include dates, audience, and format, and you will hear back promptly.