Monday BigLaw Merry-Go-Round (Mar 17, 2025)

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

• "By The Numbers: Top Trends In How Law Firms Are Growing," Law360

• "Federal Worker Layoffs Climb Toward 250,000 as Deadline Looms," Bloomberg Law

• "Single-Tier Partnerships Consider Options, While Other Firms Continue Rapid Nonequity Expansion," The American Lawyer

• "Point of Diminishing Returns: When Nonequity Partner Growth Drags Down Profits," The American Lawyer

• "Summer Associate Hiring Held Steady in 2024 as Law Firms Recruited Earlier; Report Confirms Significant Changes in Recruiting Practices," NALP

• "OCI, Early Interviews Plummeted in 2024 as Law Firms Turned to New Recruiting Methods," The American Lawyer

• "Campus Interviews Out Of Favor In Quest For Summer Talent," Law360

• "US law firms chopped summer associate jobs to record low and recruited earlier than ever, report shows," Reuters

• "Biglaw Summer Associate Recruiting Leaves OCI In The Dust In Favor Of Alternative Hiring Plans," Above the Law

• "Law firms no longer prioritizing on-campus interviewing to recruit," National Jurist

• "On-campus recruiting for summer associates falls in popularity as law firms 'jockey for positions,' ABA Journal

• "Law Firm Hiring May Indicate 'Growing Demand,' Report Says," Law360

• "Legal Jobs Down As Gov't Work Dries Up Under Trump," Law360

• "Employers Need to Understand Remote Work as an ADA Accommodation," Bloomberg Law

• "Paul Weiss to Require 4 Days of Weekly Office Attendance," The American Lawyer

• "As More Law Firms Adopt 4-Day Office Policies, Will Others See 'Safety in Numbers'?" The National Law Journal

• "The Law Firm Disrupted: Market Segmentation Muddles The Return To Office Push," Law.com

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