Monday BigLaw Merry-Go-Round (Jul 4, 2016)

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

• "Shook Hardy Elects First Woman as Firm Leader," The American Lawyer

• "Nixon Peabody names new leader for Boston office," Boston Business Journal

• "GCs Wary of Rate Hikes as Firms Increase Associate Pay," Corporate Counsel

• "DLA Piper Strikes Deal With Artificial Intelligence Firm," Legal Week

• "A Closer Look at Law Firm Diversity," The American Lawyer

• "Harvard Grad Who Flunked Bar Sues Over Loss of Big-Law Job," Law.com

• "No Simple Formula: How Chinese Law Firms Pay Their Partners," The Asian Lawyer

• "Big Firms Slow to Answer Legal Services Funding Plea," The American Lawyer

• Associate pay-hike news roundup:
  • "After Dechert's Pay Hike, Pa. Firms Watch and Wait, for Now," The Legal Intelligencer
  • "Bracewell Gives Raises to Associates, Cuts Staff," Texas Lawyer
  • "Am Law 100 Firms Match Pay Raise for Asia Associates," the Asian Lawyer
  • "Bracewell to Move to Cravath Salary Scale," Texas Lawyer
  • "Hey, Associates: 7 Ways to Spend Your Pay Raise," The American Lawyer
  • "Senior Associates Get No Respect," Law.com
  • "Hogan Lovells Sets New Salary High for DC's 'Big Four'," The National Law Journal
  • "Baker Botts Raises Associate Salary Scale," Texas Lawyer
  • "Locke Lord Raises Associate Salaries," Texas Lawyer
  • "Calif. Firms Slow to the Draw in Salary Wars," The Recorder