Monday BigLaw Merry-Go-Round (Jun 28, 2021)
Recent reports on lateral hires, financial data, salaries, and hiring trends in BigLaw.
"Winds of Change: The Slow But Sure Emergence of Female Law Firm Leaders In the Middle East," Law.com International
"Ashurst Raises London NQ Associate Pay," Law.com International
"Which Firms Have the Most LGBTQ+ Lawyers in the UK?," Law.com International
"Centralized and Specialized: Fox Rothschild's Realignment Follows Growing Trend for Big Law Support Staff," The Legal Intelligencer
"Fox Rothschild Offers Separation Package to 300 Support Staff Amid Firmwide Realignment," The American Lawyer
"Talent War Leads to More 'Boomerang' Associates and Hiring Mismatches," The American Lawyer
"US Law Firms Use Huge Salaries to Lure Australian Associates to the States," The American Lawyer
"Compensation Is King for Millennial Attorneys, New Survey Says," The American Lawyer
"Cozen O'Connor Will Test a Hybrid Work Model This Fall, Keeping Future Options Open," The Legal Intelligencer
"New York Firm and Thompson Coburn to Merge, Eyeing Benefits of Scale," The American Lawyer
"In the New Normal, There Are No Excuses for Not Building a Diverse Talent Pipeline," The American Lawyer
"Need a More Diverse Talent Pipeline? Try Recruiting Before Law School," The American Lawyer
"Canadian Bar Pushes Law Firms to Increase Recruitment and Retention of Indigenous Lawyers," Law.com International
"Is It Time for the Legal Industry to Stop Following New York?," The American Lawyer
"Associate Comp Wars Pose Hard Choices for Firms Below Market Elites," The American Lawyer
"Even After a Down Year, Some Big Law Firms Are Raising Associate Salaries," The American Lawyer
"DC Firms Are Beginning to Hike Up Associate Pay," The National Law Journal
"Several Elite Firms Raise Associate Pay, but Question Looms Over Counsel Wages," The American Lawyer
"Clifford Chance, Other Elite Firms Raise Associate Pay in the US," Law.com International
"Like Big Law Firms, Trial Boutiques Raising Associate Salaries," The American Lawyer
"Kirkland Steps Up in Salary Battle, Raising Pay for Associates and Nonequity Partners," The American Lawyer
"As More Law Firms Match Salary Scale, Signing Bonuses Become Key Differentiator," Law.com
"'Associates Are Loving This.' How The Salary Race Is Shaking Up Big Law," Law.com
"Throng of Law Firms Pile Onto New Associate Pay Scale After Cravath, Paul Weiss Move," The American Lawyer
"Crowell to Merge With Chicago Law Firm, Boosting Tech and IP Practice," The American Lawyer
"The NLJ 500: Our 2021 Survey of the Nation's Largest Law Firms," The National Law Journal
"The NLJ 500: Ranked by Head Count," National Law Journal
"The NLJ 500: Which Firms Grew and Shrunk the Most?," National Law Journal
"The 2021 Women in Law Scorecard," National Law Journal
"More Firms Are Measuring Gender Diversity, and Some Have a Great Story to Tell," The National Law Journal
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