Preparing for a Lateral Move as Partner

Preparing for a Lateral Move as Partner

Lateraling to another firm as a Partner necessarily involves more logistics than previous career moves as an associate. For associates, the focus is on skillset, experience, and grades. For partners, it is inherently more complicated to move an entire practice to...
Legal Recruiting Trends and Future Forecasting

Legal Recruiting Trends and Future Forecasting

It’s hard to succinctly summarize how different the world looks today than it did just a few years ago and how those changes have impacted every corner of the world, including the legal industry. Things have changed, to say the least, in how and when we work, attorney...
Recruiting “Do’s”

Recruiting “Do’s”

In our last newsletter, we went over the don’ts of recruiting. Alas, we are here to start 2022 on a positive note — the yes’s and do’s of recruiting attorneys.  But enough awkward conjunctions — we put our heads together and with our 40+...
Here We Are

Here We Are

Normally, this would be a space where we’d write about some issue impacting legal recruiting. We could write about the amazing rebound of the legal industry, the lateral churn, the “hot” legal markets, etc. But we wanted to share something a little different as we...
The Increasing Allure of Boutique & Mid-Sized Firms

The Increasing Allure of Boutique & Mid-Sized Firms

Over the past decade and beyond, we’ve witnessed an incredible consolidation of “big commercial law firms” in the U.S. market. Law firms have combined in every corner of the country, from the large, headline-grabbing transatlantic mega mergers, to the gobbling up of...
The Lateral Market Past, Present & Future

The Lateral Market Past, Present & Future

As 2020 and all its upheavals melts into the start of 2021, there’s no denying it has been a remarkable year. But one of the most remarkable parts of 2020 for the lateral partner market in Texas is that it’s been…well, unremarkable. Lateral movements...