Monday BigLaw Merry-Go-Round (Feb 17, 2025)
Recent reports on lateral hires, financial data, salaries, and hiring trends in BigLaw.
"'Work There Will Dry Up': White-Collar Defense Practices Poised to See Slow Downs," The National Law Journal
"Atlanta Calling: National Law Firms Flock to a 'Hotbed for Talented Lawyers,'" Daily Report
"IRS, DOJ Hires With Rescinded Jobs Get Aid From Ex-Officials," Bloomberg Tax
"Tax Bar Steps Up To Help 200 Law Students And Graduates With Rescinded Job Offers From The IRS And DOJ Tax Division Due To Trump Hiring Freeze," TaxProf Blog
"Will Big Law's Bet on the Middle East Pay Off?" Law.com International
"Business Law Boutique Merges With Accounting Firm, Showcasing Possibilities of Deregulation in Arizona," The American Lawyer
"Benefits of hybrid work examined in new study, while firms' quest to bring lawyers back to office continues," ABA Journal
"US Attorneys Said to Be Told to Justify Keeping Newest Prosecutors," Bloomberg Law
"Exceptional Growth Becoming the Rule? Demand Drove Strong Year for Big Law," The American Lawyer
"Strong Revenue and Profitability Growth Propel Pennsylvania Firms Into 2025," The Legal Intelligencer
"Southeast Firms Outpaced National Average for Demand in 2024, but Revenue Growth Lagged," Daily Report
"DC Law Firms Saw Revenue and PEP Up 9% Last Year, but 2023 Proved Hard to Beat," The National Law Journal
"Texas Lagged Industry in Revenue, Demand Growth in 2024, but 2025 Outlook is Positive," Texas Lawyer
"Eight-Figure Outliers Aside, These Lateral Candidates Face a 'Buyer's Market' in Big Law," The American Lawyer
"Associate Compensation Jumped $100K in NYC Over 5 Years, Report Finds," The American Lawyer
"A Seat at the Grown-Ups' Table? How Junior Partners Are Valued at Their Firms," The American Lawyer
"Why Do Big Law Mergers Fall Short of Revenue Hopes?" Bloomberg Law
"Beyond Averages: The Under- And Over-Performance Of Firms," Law360
"Law firm profits climbed as 2024 ended, but boom times may not last," Reuters
"Fourth Quarter Growth in Demand and Worked Rates Coincided with Countercyclical Dip, New Report Indicates," The American Lawyer
"Law Firm Growth in Demand and Worked Rates in Q4 Coincided with Countercyclical Dip," Law.com International
"Trump Hiring Freeze Has Agencies Ditching Law School Recruiting," Bloomberg Law
"'All Firms Are Vulnerable,' Even Historically Impenetrable Ones, in The Modern Hiring Market," The American Lawyer
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