Biglaw Firms Are Firing With One Hand, Hiring With The Other
Biglaw giveth, and Biglaw taketh away.
They’re doing that with the one hand, while with the other hand more aggressively recruiting in higher performing groups of people.
— Kent Zimmermann, a law firm management consultant with the Zeughauser Group, in comments given to Bloomberg Law on how Biglaw firms are “cleaning up” their workforces by counseling out underperformers, while at the same time bringing on lateral associates, partners, and entire practice groups.
Staci Zaretsky is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she’s worked since 2011. She’d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on Twitter or connect with her on LinkedIn.
