Sentences with phrase «first lateral hire»

Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison has made its first ever partner promotion in London, on the back of its first lateral hire in the City earlier this year.

Not exact matches

Large law firms are laying - off lawyers, bringing in smaller first year associate classes, hiring more contract and experienced lateral attorneys.

Briefly, I compared the results, and lateral hiring programmes, of six pairs of UK law firms over the five year period of my first research.

Now, we are seeing the first true signs of a battle within one segment of the legal market where the key ingredient is not the lateral hiring of top partners, or the opening of foreign offices, but the development of legal technology.

Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft has made its first lateral partner hire in the City since losing a seven - partner team to Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker in January 2009.

LG has made its first Singapore lateral hire since launching in the region last spring, as the firm sets out growth plans for the office.

During the fourth quarter of 2014 and first quarter of 2015, at least 118 partners at the 200 largest U.S. - based law firms by domestic headcount had made lateral job moves, while that number dropped 16 percent, to 99, during the fourth quarter of 2015 and first quarter of this year, according to data on law firm hiring collected by Law360.

Slaughter and May has made its first ever lateral partner hire with the addition of Morrison & Foerster US capital markets partner John Moore in Hong Kong.

Slaughter and May has made its first ever lateral partner hire in Asia with the addition of Morrison & Foerster US capital markets partner John Moore in Hong Kong.

Four years after making its first - ever lateral hire in the Chinese territory, the Magic Circle firm has recruited disputes partner Wynne Mok from the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission.

I would like to focus on the integration aspect of lateral hiring, but first will offer a few quick points regarding the investigation of conflicts and client quality in that context.

I've compiled the first of what will become a quarterly review of trends in a new bulletin, with a «does - what - it - says - on - the - tin'title: The London Lateral Hiring Trends Bulletin.

A systematic analysis of lateral hiring is just the first step in executing on a plan to use laterals to drive law firm growth.