Monday BigLaw Merry-Go-Round (Jun 18, 2018)

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

• "Milbank and Weil Make Headlines; UnitedLex, Dentons, and Deloitte Make Waves," Law.com

• "UnitedLex and LeClairRyan Announce Innovative New Law Venture," The American Lawyer

• "Will LeClairRyan's UnitedLex Deal Be the Accelerant Big Law Innovation Needs?," The American Lawyer

• "Seasoned Women Lawyers Gaining Leverage in Salary Talks," The American Lawyer

• "Large, Pedigreed Firms Underperform on Service Quality Compared to Other Firms," The American Lawyer

• "Cravath Sets New High in Associate Salary Race," The National Law Journal

• "Kirkland Has Spoken… Can We Now Declare The Salary Wars Over?," Above the Law

• "Associates Will Soon Be Making Even More Bank At This Biglaw Firm," Above the Law

• "Weil, Cleary Match Cravath as Firms Aim for Moving Target on Associate Raises," The American Lawyer

• "Another Biglaw Firm Raises Associate Salaries — This Is The Standard To Beat," Above the Law

• "Today's A Great Day For Some Biglaw Associate Raises,"

• "Quinn Emanuel Is Quick To Fall In Line With New Market Salaries," Above the Law

• "Paul Weiss Makes Their Compensation Statement," Above the Law

• "Debevoise And Plimpton Does The Nice Thing And Matches Cravath," Above the Law

• "Starting Law Firm Associate Salaries Hit $190,000," The Wall Street Journal

• "Law and Lemmings: Associate Salary Increases Are a Mass Act of Self-Harm," The American Lawyer

• "Some Law Firm Staff See Pay Gap Widen as Associate Salaries Soar," New York Law Journal

• "This Big Law Leader Decided to Match Milbank. Why?," The American Lawyer

• "What's a Reasonable Ratio of Partner Comp to Associate Starting Salary?," The American Lawyer

• "'The Tone Deafness Is Astounding': Clients Unhappy About Milbank Associate Raise Announcement," Corporate Counsel

• "Nelson Mullins to Merge With Florida's Broad and Cassel, Creating 725-Lawyer Firm," The American Lawyer

• "As Big Law Floods Regional Markets, Will Local Firms Sink or Swim?," The American Lawyer

• "Eversheds Sutherland Says 30 Percent of Equity Partners to Be Women by 2021," Daily Report

• "Maybe the Gig Economy Isn't Reshaping Work After All," The New York Times