Monday BigLaw Merry-Go-Round (May 29, 2023)
Recent reports on lateral hires, financial data, salaries, and hiring trends in BigLaw.
"London-Based Clyde & Co Implements 26-Week Paid Parental Leave," Law.com International
"Top Biglaw Firm Offers Enhanced Parental Leave Program With Up To 26 Weeks Paid Leave," Above the Law
"Lifetime Achievement, Law Firm: Chris Boyd, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati," Legaltech News
"More First-Year Deferrals Likely as Firms Grapple With Dormant Corporate Practices, Large Incoming Class Sizes," The American Lawyer
"Legal Mergers Rise on Firms' Desire to Take on Biggest Rivals," Bloomberg Law
"Law Firm Partner Hourly Rates Rose Last Year at Biggest Clip in at Least a Decade," Corporate Counsel
"Where Are Partner Billing Rates Surging the Most in Big Law?," The National Law Journal
"Shearman & Sterling to Merge with Allen & Overy," The American Lawyer
"A&O Shearman Needs 75% Partnership Approval to Get Merger Done," Law.com International
"A&O Shearman merger would be a blockbuster, but maybe not a harbinger," Reuters
"A 'Huge Threat': Why A&O's Rivals Fear Being Leapfrogged in the US," Law.com International
"The Allen & Overy-Shearman Merger and the End of the Magic Circle Era," Law.com International
"Perfect Match or Desperate Deal? Rivals and Insiders on the A&O Shearman Merger," Law.com International
"Smaller but Mightier: The 2023 Am Law 200 Outperforms Larger Firms," Law.com
"Are Second Hundred Firms the New 100?," The American Lawyer
"Despite Market Uncertainty, Am Law 200 Firms Are Poised for Growth," The American Lawyer
"The Law Firm Disrupted: What Extreme Profit Margins Tell Us About the Am Law 200," Law.com
"Morgan & Morgan Launches $2 Million Summer Associates Program," The National Law Journal
"Law Firm Hiring From DOJ and FTC Slows, Amid Uncertainty in Big Law," The National Law Journal
"Female Expats on Why They Left Paul Weiss, Hogan, Paul Hastings," Bloomberg Law
"Law Firm Mergers, Pitched as Benefitting Clients, Also Can Bring Headaches, Conflicts," The American Lawyer
"BigLaw firm lays off 47 business services employees," ABA Journal
"Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner Cuts 47 Staff Globally, Citing Excess Capacity in Secretarial and Administrative Roles," The American Lawyer
"Big Law's 'Era of the Storm' Gives Powerful a Chance to Strike," Bloomberg Law
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