Monday BigLaw Merry-Go-Round (Oct. 19, 2015)

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

• "Law Department Staffing Up, Spending Down. But Is More Going to Firms?," Corporate Counsel

• "2015 Could Set Record for Number of Law Firm Mergers," The American Lawyer
  • "Law firm mergers continue at record pace," ABA Journal

• "Why Are So Many Law Firms Trapped in 1995?," The Atlantic reports