Monday BigLaw Merry-Go-Round (Jan 6, 2025)

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

• "Few Atlanta-Centric Law Firms Expected to Pay Associate Bonuses at Market Scale," Daily Report

• "'Pickier' Law Firms Did Mergers at Same Rate Last Year as 2023," American Lawyer

• "New York-Based Harris Beach Combines With Connecticut-Based Murtha Cullina, Forming NE Powerhouse," Law.com

• "New Year, New Am Law 100: Challenges Await These Newly Merged Law Firms," The American Lawyer

• "Why Hogan Lovells and Perkins Coie Reversed, Will Now Pay Out Special Bonuses to Associates," The American Lawyer

• "NJ Managing Partner Survey Indicates Tougher 2024 for Many Law Firms," New Jersey Law Journal

• "Firms Saw Slight Declines From Last Year, but Merger Interest Remains High, Managing Partner Survey Reveals," The Legal Ingelligencer

• "Clifford Chance Hikes Partner Pay as UK Firms Fight to Stay Competitive on Compensation," Law.com

• "Bottoming Out or Merging Up? Law Firms That Shuttered in 2024," The American Lawyer

• "'Almost an Arms Race': California Law Firms Scooped Up Lateral Talent by the Handful in 2024," The Recorder

• "Law firms' quest for market share drives New Year's merger wave," Reuters

• "BigLaw is taking an 'uneven approach' to bonuses," ABA Journal

• "Grabbing Market Share From Rivals, Law Firms Ramped Up Group Lateral Hires," The American Lawyer

• "As Big Law Moved Into Texas, Homegrown Firms Expanded Out, in 2024," The American Lawyer

• "Law Firm Office Growth in Pennsylvania Lagged in 2024," The Legal Intelligencer

• "'So Many Firms' Have Yet to Announce Associate Bonuses, Underlining Big Law's Uneven Approach," The National Law Journal

• "Changes at the Top: How 'Different Leadership Skills' Are Prevailing in Big Law," The American Lawyer

• "New Strategies For Enhancing Firm Culture," Law360

• "Here's Where Mid-Law Leaders Will Be Focused In 2025," Law360

• "Kansas nears 'constitutional crisis' because of attorney shortage, justice says," ABA Journal

• "Firms Expand Recruiting Departments Amid Strategic Push," Law360

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