Monday BigLaw Merry-Go-Round (Jan 13, 2025)

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

• "Law Firms Ended 2024 With 'Drastic' Drop In Lateral Hiring," Law360

• "After Busy 2024, Law Firms Eye More Mergers In Year Ahead," Law360

• "Canadian Lawyer report reveals key trends in legal salaries across Canada," Canadian Lawyer

• "Sullivan & Cromwell Signals 5-Day RTO Expectation as Law Firms Remain Split on Optimal Attendance," The American Lawyer

• "Ontario job posting laws tackle vast pay ranges spurred by rules in other jurisdictions," Law Times

• "Three Big Law Practice Areas Will Thrive in Trump's First Year," Bloomberg Law

• "How the world's 'most-feared' law firm uses flexible work policies to lure its attorneys to the office," Fast Company

• "Five Big Questions Facing Law Firm Managing Partners in 2025," Bloomberg Law

• "In Free Agent Lateral Era, Big Law Has 'Entire Teams Dedicated to Identifying' Top Talent," The American Lawyer

• "Signaling Growth Goals, Some Law Firms Promote Record Partner Classes," The American Lawyer

• "Amid Race for Top Talent, Latham Focuses on Lateral Integration," The American Lawyer

• "Strategies For Successful Law Firm Mergers In 2025," Law360

• "KPMG Law US Targets Alternative Business License, Shaking Up Legal Status Quo," Law.com International

• "KPMG Seeks License to Operate US Law Firm Based in Arizona," Bloomberg Law

• "The Law Firm Disrupted: With KPMG's Proposed Entry, Arizona's Liberalized Legal Market is Getting Interesting," Law.com

• "KMPG Wants to Provide Legal Services in the US. Now All Eyes Are on Their Big Four Peers," The American Lawyer

• "Law Firms Close Southern California Offices Amid Devastating Wildfires," The American Lawyer

• "Many LA County Law Firms Remain Open, Mobilize to Support Affected Employees Amid Historic Firestorm," The Recorder

• "Law firms saw strong profits in 2024, study finds, but demand expected to ebb in 2025," Reuters

• 2025 Report on the State of the US Legal Market, Thomas Reuters

• "Demand Growth to 'Likely Weaken' in 2025 After 'Anomalies' Propelled Big Law Profits in 2024," The American Lawyer

• "Legal Departments Dinged for Acquiescing to Rate Hikes That 'Defy Gravity,'" Law.com

• "Am Law 50's Head Count 'Holding Pattern' Could Trickle Down," The American Lawyer

• "Bad news for associates? Report finds law firms are shifting to new 'talent model' for hiring," ABA Journal

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