Monday BigLaw Merry-Go-Round (May 4, 2015)

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

• "Ford & Harrison Bumps Up Partner Profit Despite Flat Revenue," Daily Report
• "Saul Ewing Revenue Up 6.5%, RPL Up 4.3% Percent," The Legal Intelligencer
• "Corporate Work Uptick Fuels Arnall Golden Gregory Revenue," Daily Report
• "2014 Was 'Phenomenal Year' for Ogletree Deakins," Daily Report

Salaries

• "PA Big-Firm Associate Salaries in Flux," The Legal Intelligencer
• "Women Still Earn a Lot less Than Men," The New York Times
• "First-Year Associate Salaries at Large Law Firms Have Become Less Homogenous, Though $160,000 Continues to Define the Top of the Market," NALP
• "Associate Pay Still Lags Behind Prerecession Levels," The National Law Journal
• "Welcome to Your First Year as a Lawyer, Your Salary Is $160,000," The New York Times
• "NALP sees 'upward movement' in starting pay for associates; median increases $10K," ABA Journal
• "Pay for new lawyers in Pittsburgh lags metros, but one big employer has boosted starting salaries," Pittsburgh Business Times
• "Triangle attorneys earn less than the national average," Triangle Business Journal
• "The state of salaries for new US law school graduates," Quartz
• "Study: Large law firms paying more for first-year lawyers," New Orleans City Business
• "First-year DC lawyers still receive good salaries, but fewer are seeing top-market pay," Washington Business Journal
• "Lawyer salaries going up, NALP says," Minnesota Lawyer
• "Welcome to Your First Year as a Lawyer. Your Salary Is $160,000," CNBC
• "For New Lawyers, $160,000 Remains the Norm," Bloomberg BNA
• "Associate salary rises 8pc in US to median of $135,000 for first years," The Global Legal Post

Firm Management & Mergers

• "Dentons Strikes Again," Am Law Daily
• "At Dentons, Strategy Is to Go Big," The Wall Street Journal
• "Survey Sees Slight Dip in Confidence Among Firm Leaders," Am Law Daily
• "Under ABS Structure, Cahill Makes London Litigation Debut," Am Law Daily
• "Which law firms are most family friendly? Yale Law Women names top 10," The ABA Journal
• "Concerned about lifestyle and balance? You probably won't amount to much in the law, recruiter says," ABA Journal
• "The Business Case for Including Gay Lawyers," The National Law Journal
• "Wake Up Call: Lawyers in New York Promote LGBT Inclusion," Bloomberg BNA
• "Diversity and the Law: Old Problem, New Approach," The National Law Journal

Lateral Hires & Influential Lawyers

• "Introducing The National Law Journal's Outstanding Women Lawyers," The National Law Journal