This Biglaw Firm Rules Them All When It Comes To Lateral Hiring
That's a TON of laterals!
We’ve never seen numbers like this.
When you think about the size of the firm, its spread geographically, its client diversity and where they are in the league tables for transactional work —just look at what their need is.
— Michael Ellenhorn, CEO of Decipher, a company that tracks U.S. lateral attorney moves, commenting on Latham’s lateral hiring spree thus far in 2021. Between January 1 and June 30, the firm hired 274 lateral associates, the most of any Biglaw firm.
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