Sentences with phrase «on lateral hiring»

The good financial news — which was announced to partners on February 4, five days after the end of the firm's fiscal year — followed what turned out to be a robust 2011 on the lateral hiring front.

Gibson, Dunn was active on the lateral hiring front last year, adding a total of 20 lateral partners.

The focus in recent years on lateral hiring is but a glimpse of what is to come.

Whether they refocus on lateral hiring, contract / temp - to - hire attorneys, project attorneys, staff attorneys, alumni relations, interview training, marketing, personality testing, or non-traditional positions like pricing directors, the right mix will be different for every firm.

Furthermore, huge amounts of money are then spent on lateral hires (in terms of recruitment fees and guaranteed minimum drawings) when there is, consequently, a dearth of decent lawyers coming through from the ranks to fill the higher levels.

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

Norton Rose is currently focusing on lateral hires and cost - cutting following a series of mergers during the past few years, which culminated in the 2013 tie - up with Houston's Fulbright & Jaworski.

For some time now, we've read about law firms instituting hiring freezes, relying on lateral hires rather than gambling on recent graduates, or even laying off lawyers and other support staff.

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This can be done in part by hiring people for qualities over skills, and more importantly, by those in leadership positions exhibiting a spirit of cooperation and collaboration, not only to those who are on a lateral plane but also to their subordinates.

My own research shows that roughly 50 % of lateral hires leave after four years, leaving aside all the people law firms take on who perform disappointingly.

Sage recruiters point out to me that some firms» lateral recruitment activity might have been put on hold while they put all their energies into having to settle Dewey hires quickly, and this is certainly plausible.

Posted by Jeff Jeffrey on September 08, 2009 at 01:40 PM in Laterals / Hiring, Legal Business, Supreme Court Permalink

They may be chosen to serve on other committees such as marketing, associates, recruiting, lateral hires, administrative staff, financial, ethics or the management committee, etc..

Set out in the four articles linked below are our thoughts on what Brexit will mean for lateral hires:

Venable grabs a five - lawyer IP group in Washington, D.C.; Sullivan & Cromwell makes a rare lateral hire; and a nine - lawyer health care group is on the move in Birmingham.

My focus was on lateral partner hiring, where I gave a sneak preview of a little exercise I've done looking at the value generated (or not) by a lateral hiring programme, a task in which I was ably assisted by another Møller consultant, Derek Klyhn.

The findings were that the firms with relatively conservative lateral hiring programmes and good retention of lateral partners did better on most financial measures than comparators who had either done a lot of lateral hiring or very little.

We rely on his direct, no - nonsense approach in accurately assessing the likely fit of potential candidates (for their sake and ours) so that we can continue building our team with exceptional lateral hires.

Barbara contributed to the Law360 article titled «IP Partners Face A Declining Lateral Job Market,» commenting on how changes in the law contributed to the nervousness in intellectual property hiring.

Posted by Mike Scarcella on December 11, 2013 at 11:24 AM in Laterals / Hiring, Legal Business Permalink Comments (0) TrackBack (0)

To gain more insight on developing a strong lateral hiring process at your law firm, read other articles on our blogs:

Posted by Andrew Ramonas on December 04, 2013 at 09:44 AM in Laterals / Hiring, Legal Business Permalink Comments (0) TrackBack (0)

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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.

As a matter of conduct, you are not generally under a regulatory duty to supervise equity partners, but that is not a reason for letting people go completely off on their own, and this is even more so with lateral hires.

It was a relatively quiet year on the hiring front for the firm in London with only one lateral hire, Rod Freeman from Hogan Lovells in September 2017.

Latham & Watkins on Wednesday announced that the firm has opened a new office in Boston with seven lateral hires.

The diversity lens we applied on our pipeline of lateral hires and partner promotions has seen us break the crucial 30 per cent threshold for large law firms, which is a testament to the quality of our senior lawyers.»

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.

This year lateral hiring in cap markets has been extremely slow, for two obvious reasons: a) Many IPOs US cap markets groups have been working on in HK / China are on hold; and b) there was much more than usual lateral hiring in this practice area from late ’10 to mid ’11 (right before the slow down in IPOs).

Trade publication IP Law 360 ran a brief story on January 15 about the lateral hire with a headline that isn't unusual in the legal press, but was enough to incense Pitcock's former employers — by hyping the star hire without mentioning the fact that he had been canned for questionable behavior.

Fried Frank announced on Tuesday the lateral hire of Bellini, who will be based in Washington, D.C. Bellini's practice focuses on advising banks and other financial institutions on a wide range of issues, such as M&A and strategic investments, new legislation and regulatory hurdles, and government investigations and enforcement actions.

The firm does not expect to hire many laterals in 2012, Davis says, but will focus instead on integrating the new practices.

Our lateral hiring is more based on practice area need.

In a statement, Ben Knowles, co-chair of the global arbitration group, singled out the firm's focus on oil and gas, as well as the overall arbitral capabilities, which have been enhanced over recent years with a range of lateral hires, recent partner promotions including this year's round, and law firm mergers, not least in the United States.

A trio of recent lateral hires indicates that law firms in London are keeping a close eye on African energy and infrastructure opportunities, with US law firms at the vanguard of such interest.

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.

Posted by Mike Scarcella on November 15, 2013 at 11:11 AM in Laterals / Hiring, Legal Business, Lobbying Permalink

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.

Posted by Zoe Tillman on November 15, 2012 at 03:11 PM in Associate Life, Balancing Act, Current Affairs, Laterals / Hiring, Legal Business Permalink Comments (0) TrackBack (0)

Posted by Mike Scarcella on March 22, 2013 at 02:43 PM in Associate Life, Current Affairs, Justice Department, Laterals / Hiring, Legal Business, Politics and Government, Salaries, Web / Tech Permalink

Given the often highly disruptive nature of lateral hires, I worry that firms don't think carefully enough, and holistically enough, before taking on someone who isn't going to add materially to the business.

Posted by Zoe Tillman on November 15, 2012 at 03:11 PM in Associate Life, Balancing Act, Current Affairs, Laterals / Hiring, Legal Business Permalink

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Hence, for many mid-size law firms, the trend is toward reliance on hiring lateral associates who are already trained.

Posted by Andrew Ramonas on January 09, 2014 at 12:49 PM in Laterals / Hiring, Legal Business, Politics and Government Permalink Comments (0) TrackBack (0)

They may be chosen to serve on other committees such as marketing, associates, recruiting, lateral hires, administrative staff, financial, ethics or management.

This report is a comprehensive focus on associate attrition (entry - level and lateral hires) for calendar year 2006.

Posted by Andrew Ramonas on January 08, 2014 at 10:30 AM in Laterals / Hiring, Legal Business, Politics and Government Permalink Comments (0) TrackBack (0)