Ed. Note: Welcome to our daily feature Trivia Question of the Day!
According to data collected by Decipher, by what percentage is Biglaw associate hiring up this year, over the previous three-year average?
Hint: The hiring spree is reportedly making firms loosen their traditional standards. “Firms are all the sudden open to those associates if they have any of the requisite experience,” said Summer Eberhard, managing director at legal recruiter Major Lindsey & Africa. “Their open-mindedness is looking beyond law school grades to, ‘Are you somebody that can come in and get ramped up?’”
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