Monday BigLaw Merry-Go-Round (Mar 31, 2025)
Recent reports on lateral hires, financial data, salaries, and hiring trends in BigLaw.
"Law Firm Lateral Hiring Expands in 2024, Fueled by Associate Recruitment," NALP
"Lateral Hiring Bounces Back After Post-Pandemic Contraction, Report Says," The American Lawyer
"Associate Recruitment Helps Boost Law Firm Lateral Hiring," Law360
"US law firm lateral hiring ramped up in 2024 following two-year slump, report shows," Reuters
"Lateral hiring bounced back in 2024, especially for associates in BigLaw, new NALP report says," ABA Journal
"Incentives Beyond the Billable Hour," The American Lawyer
"Latham Scraps On-Campus Interviews to Recruit Summer Associates," Bloomberg Law
"While Big Law Mulls an Amicus Brief, Boutique Statements Multiply," The American Lawyer
"Legal Ops Salaries Are Rising — but Ex-Paralegals Aren't Getting Their Due," Corporate Counsel
"Spanish Firms Aggressively Look to Latin America for Growth," Law.com
"'A Lot to Offer This Market': KPMG Shares Goals for US Law Firm," The American Lawyer
"Trump Loses Bid to Stop Rehiring Fired Employees During Appeal," Bloomberg Law
"Recruiters: Not Enough Jobs for All Former Federal Lawyers Who Want Them in Atlanta," Daily Report
"Big Law at War," The American Lawyer
"Skadden, a Top Law Firm, Is in Talks to Avert an Executive Order," The New York Times
"Trump Hits WilmerHale With Executive Order Over Mueller Ties," Bloomberg Law
"Global firm WilmerHale accused of racial discrimination in Trump proclamation," Canadian Lawyer
"Skadden Associate Says Peers Have Role in Standing Up to Trump," Bloomberg Law
"Associates Are Organizing Protests in Face of Big Law's Silence, Concessions to Trump Administration," The American Lawyer
"Trump targets Jenner & Block in latest executive order aimed at law firms," Reuters
"Flagged For Litigation? Jenner Is One of Several Large Law Firms Who've Sued the Trump Administration," The American Lawyer
"DOJ Launches 'Immediate Review' of Law Firms After Trump Memo," Bloomberg Law
"A Tale of Two Law Firms: Perkins Fights Trump, Paul Weiss Bends," Bloomberg Law
"Trump said he struck a deal with Paul Weiss. The law firm's internal copy has a major difference," Business Insider
"Paul Weiss Anti-DEI Pledge to Trump Risks Slowing Diversity Work," Bloomberg Law
"Murky Terms of Paul Weiss Agreement Raise Firm 'Audit' Questions, While Latest Order Urges Attorney Sanctions," The American Lawyer
"Spooked by Paul Weiss Deal and Trump, Law Firms Scramble to Perform Risk Assessments, Build Consensus," Law.com International
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