Monday BigLaw Merry-Go-Round (Nov. 16, 2015)

Recent reports on lateral hires, financial data, salaries, and hiring trends in BigLaw.

• "Graying Firms Wrestle With Making Room for Younger Lawyers," The New York Times
  • "Is there a generational divide in BigLaw? Only 3% of managing partners are from Gen X," ABA Journal

• "Lateral Partner Hiring Trend Continues to Build Steam Despite Challenges," Law.com
  • "Lateral Partner Movement Frenzied Late in the Year," The Legal Intelligencer

• "New Partners Optimistic There's Room at the Top," The American Lawyer

• "Record Number 10 Supreme Court Clerks Head to Jones Day," The National Law Journal

• "Should Big Firms Worry About Plummeting Bar Scores?," Bloomberg BNA

• "Four Women and No Men, a Big Law Anomaly, Make Partner at Latham," Legal Times

• "Some big firms are finding profit in commoditized work," ABA Journal

• "Making the Most of Mentorship," The Recorder

• "Harvard Law Library Readies Trove of Decisions for Digital Age," The New York Times

• "Free the Law' project by Harvard's law library is scanning books for free Internet case database," ABA Journal

• "Law Firms Could Go Paperless by 2020," Legaltech News
  • "Going Paperless May Mean Less Rental Space for Law Firms," Legaltech News

• "Computer vs. Lawyer? Many Firm Leaders Expect Computers to Win," The American Lawyer

• "The Smartest Ways to Network at a Party: Reading a room is a skill that can be learned," The Wall Street Journal