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Legal Data

Fresh data: 5 Lateral Hiring Trends Shaping the Legal Market

Discover the five critical lateral hiring trends that defined 2025 and are now shaping the 2026 legal landscape.

February 10, 2026
Legal Data

5 Things to Look for in a Legal Data Intelligence Platform (and Why They Matter)

When your data is accurate, clear, and actionable, it drives success across legal recruiting, competitive intelligence, and business development.

September 22, 2025
Government

July 2025 Insights: Law Firms Accelerate Hiring of Government Attorneys

This analysis examines the record-breaking surge of government attorneys transitioning to private practice in July 2025, a trend driven by federal agency downsizing and firms strategically seeking insider regulatory and enforcement expertise.

September 2, 2025
Legal Jobs

From Government to BigLaw: Tracking Post-Election Moves

Track the significant reshuffling of legal talent following the 2024 election, highlighting a major trend of attorneys transitioning from federal agencies like the DOJ and SEC into partner and associate roles at top law firms.

February 28, 2025
Attorney Movements

How to Transition from a Government Role to a Law Firm: Tips for Attorneys

Learn how to strategically translate your government experience into a private practice setting, from identifying the top-hiring firms for DOJ and SEC talent to re-packaging your regulatory expertise for high-stakes billable roles.

November 4, 2024
Law Firms

Are Law Firms Hiring for a Potential Recession by Adding Bankruptcy Attorneys?

Discover how law firms are proactively hedging against economic uncertainty by ramping up bankruptcy attorney recruitment and job postings, a strategic shift that reveals the industry's preparation for a potential surge in financial restructuring work.

September 3, 2024
Practice Areas

AmLaw 100 Moves to In-House Roles: 3-Year Analysis

Explore a three-year breakdown of over 8,000 attorney transitions to discover why corporate lawyers are twice as likely as litigators to move in-house and which tech giants and financial institutions are the primary destinations for AmLaw 100 talent.

April 2, 2024
Legal Jobs

New Job Listings Increase for Law Firm, In-House and Government Attorneys in March

Analyze the significant March rebound in legal recruitment, where new in-house and government job listings surged by over 27% and 31% respectively, led by aggressive hiring from Big 4 accounting firms and the DOJ.

April 1, 2024
Law Schools

Law Schools of Choice for AmLaw 100 Firms: Class of 2023

Identify the top talent pipelines for BigLaw by analyzing which law schools sent the most 2023 graduates to AmLaw 100 firms, featuring a deep dive into both aggregate hiring leaders like Georgetown and Harvard and percentage-based powerhouses like Northwestern.

March 6, 2024
Law Firms

Lateral Law Firm Hiring Dips in February

Learn how the legal market hit a five-year lateral hiring low in February, contrasting a steady decline in overall moves with a surprising 15% uptick in corporate practice hires that may signal shifting deal flow for the year ahead.

March 5, 2024
In-House

Law Firm, In-House and Government Attorney Jobs all Dip in February

Understand how the market-wide decline in legal job listings during February hit in-house and government sectors hardest with 20% drops, while law firms maintained a relative baseline through heavy recruitment in litigation and labor and employment.

March 1, 2024
Practice Areas

Should you Work with a Legal Recruiter? It Depends.

Learn how to determine if a legal search consultant is the right partner for your next move by weighing the benefits of their market access and "warm" firm introductions against the strategic advantages of navigating your own career path through direct research and networking.

February 22, 2024
Attorney Movements

The New Way to Network: How Attorneys Are Leveraging Their Connections

Learn how to move beyond traditional social media by using purpose-built legal networking tools to track peer movements, perform objective employer research, and leverage shared professional history for strategic career advancement.

June 27, 2023
Practice Areas

Record-Breaking Transactional Hiring by Law Firms in 2021

Learn how the 2021 legal market saw an unprecedented surge in transactional hiring, where corporate attorneys were recruited at twice the rate of litigators to keep pace with record-breaking tech M&A and the SPAC IPO boom.

February 17, 2022
Law Firms

Associate Hiring and Attrition at “Top 25” Law Firms

Discover how the nation's largest law firms are navigating a high-demand talent market by analyzing the diverse associate hiring and attrition strategies that led powerhouses like Kirkland, Cooley, and Goodwin to expand their associate ranks by over 20% in a single year.

September 16, 2021
In-House

In-House Moves are Busy, too.

Gain insight into the high-volume in-house talent market where corporate associates are eight times more likely to move than litigators, driven by aggressive recruitment from tech giants like Amazon and significant departures from firms like Kirkland & Ellis.

August 17, 2021
Law Schools

Here’s Where the Top 5 Law School Graduates Are Going

Discover the specific career trajectories of graduates from the nation’s top five law schools, from Skadden’s consistent recruitment of Chicago and Stanford talent to the heavy concentration of Yale and Columbia alumni at firms like Davis Polk and Wachtell.

December 3, 2019
Data Privacy

Q3 2019 – On the Move: Data Privacy

Understand how the wave of new data protection regulations like the CCPA and GDPR triggered a hiring frenzy in 2019, causing data privacy attorneys to move firms at more than twice the rate of their peers in traditional practice areas.

October 17, 2019
Legal Jobs

Data-Driven Recruitment for Law Firms: Enhancing Your Bottom Line

Understand how "Dynamic" law firms outpace their competitors by using data-driven recruitment to minimize the high cost of attorney turnover and leverage internal connections for more successful, mission-aligned hires.

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