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A fast, recruiter's-lens read on the US legal market: partner moves, lateral hiring trends, and the BigLaw business news that actually moves careers.

Friday, September 18, 2026

Gibson Dunn pulls a three partner trial team out of Paul Weiss

Read the update Thursday, September 17, 2026

Kirkland pulls a partner out of Ropes in Boston, and an AmLaw 200 firm buys its way into New York

Read the update Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Dallas data centers pull two AmLaw firms in on the same day, and Weil names new corporate co-chairs

Read the update Tuesday, September 15, 2026

A real estate team walks out of Kasowitz, and Kirkland loses four private equity partners

Read the update Monday, September 14, 2026

A six-partner lift-out, and two DOJ antitrust enforcers land in Big Law

Read the update Friday, September 11, 2026

Cravath takes six from Weil

Read the update Thursday, September 10, 2026

Wachtell just lost an M&A partner to Linklaters

Read the update Wednesday, September 9, 2026

Proskauer adds a four-partner leveraged finance team with Cahill roots. Lewis Brisbois loses a 29-person auto defense group.

Read the update Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Kirkland loses three partners in a day. Weil takes back a Freshfields private credit co-head.

Read the update Friday, September 4, 2026

Simpson Thacher takes Weil's private funds co-head. Skadden and Kirkland lawyers sanctioned $2M.

Read the update Thursday, September 3, 2026

Proskauer takes Goodwin's appellate co-chair. Sidley takes a Wachtell tax partner.

Read the update Wednesday, September 2, 2026

O'Melveny raids Cleary, and Dallas gets crowded

Read the update Tuesday, September 1, 2026

A retired judge picks a firm, and Skadden raids Orrick

Read the update Monday, August 31, 2026

Weil doubles up in San Francisco, and an antitrust hiring wave in DC

Read the update Friday, August 28, 2026

Ogletree doubles up in Los Angeles, and a marquee court appointment

Read the update Thursday, August 27, 2026

Gibson Dunn Takes Paul Weiss's AI Co-Chair in New York

Read the update Wednesday, August 26, 2026

Norton Rose Fulbright Takes Mintz's Sports Practice Chair in New York

Read the update Tuesday, August 25, 2026

Gibson Dunn Poaches Baker Botts' Energy PE Co-Head in Houston

Read the update Monday, August 24, 2026

Paul Weiss takes a Goodwin appellate partner. Sidley takes four out of Winston Taylor.

Read the update Friday, August 21, 2026

Weil loses its private equity co-head to Paul Weiss

Read the update Thursday, August 20, 2026

McGuireWoods raids Womble, and private equity finally lands a US law firm

Read the update Wednesday, August 19, 2026

DLA Piper takes a Freshfields investigations partner, and Quinn Emanuel clears $3B

Read the update Tuesday, August 18, 2026

A seven-partner healthcare lift-out in Raleigh, and Cravath loses another one

Read the update Monday, August 17, 2026

Simpson Thacher keeps building Boston, and Clifford Chance takes a Jones Day partner

Read the update Friday, August 14, 2026

A healthcare lift-out in Atlanta and a South Florida hiring burst

Read the update Thursday, August 13, 2026

Greenberg Traurig grabs Venable's real estate chair in DC

Read the update Wednesday, August 12, 2026

White & Case taps Mayer Brown's global funds co-head

Read the update Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Orrick raids Kirkland for its global capital markets leader

Read the update Monday, August 10, 2026

Cleary ramps up: 17 lateral partners this year

Read the update Friday, August 7, 2026

Simpson Thacher opens Chicago with five Kirkland partners

Read the update Thursday, August 6, 2026

MoFo adds three in LA, Chicago raids Mayer Brown and Kirkland

Read the update Wednesday, August 5, 2026

Two Silicon Valley launches in one day, and Brown Rudnick took 34 lawyers to do it

Read the update Tuesday, August 4, 2026

Sidley lifts an 11 lawyer fund finance team out of the new Hogan Lovells Cadwalader

Read the update Monday, August 3, 2026

Willkie plants a trial practice in Dallas, and an antitrust boutique keeps raiding the government

Read the update Friday, July 31, 2026

Greenberg Traurig raids Jones Walker, and Skadden loses the Purdue judge

Read the update Thursday, July 30, 2026

Proskauer hires the NFL's former general counsel as a litigation partner in New York

Read the update Wednesday, July 29, 2026

Gibson Dunn takes six Wachtell partners in New York, led by the co-chair of its executive committee

Read the update Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Kirkland launches a Dallas restructuring group with two Jones Day partners, and Paul Weiss takes a Ropes and Gray capital markets partner

Read the update Monday, July 27, 2026

Greenberg Traurig takes the leader of Blank Rome's business litigation group, and Washington keeps hiring

Read the update Friday, July 24, 2026

HSF Kramer poaches Haynes Boone's Supreme Court practice leader, and a thirteen lawyer raid on Proskauer

Read the update Thursday, July 23, 2026

Kirkland stacks real estate partners for the AI data center boom, and the lateral wire stays busy

Read the update Wednesday, July 22, 2026

McGuireWoods pulls a Kirkland debt finance partner in Houston, and firms keep stacking dealmakers

Read the update Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Latham takes a third Davis Polk capital markets partner, and Paramount's Warner deal is paused

Read the update Monday, July 20, 2026

A quiet Monday: Polsinelli adds real estate in Dallas, and data breach suits reach Blank Rome

Read the update Friday, July 17, 2026

Jones Walker absorbs a Texas corporate boutique, and K&L Gates cuts 10% of its staff

Read the update Thursday, July 16, 2026

The written cut: Linklaters raids Paul Weiss, and Sidley pulls a Latham finance partner

Read the update Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Simpson Thacher opens Dallas with an Akin lift-out, and Goodwin plants a flag in San Diego

Read the update Tuesday, July 14, 2026

Latham raids Baker Botts for an energy team in Houston

Read the update Monday, July 13, 2026

Simpson Thacher raids Clifford Chance's insurance team, and Paul Hastings jumps into sports

Read the update Friday, July 10, 2026

Latham poaches a Davis Polk capital markets pair, including the SpaceX IPO lead

Read the update Thursday, July 9, 2026

Sidley keeps raiding Clifford Chance, this time a five-partner finance group

Read the update Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Kirkland and Cravath each lose partners, and Latham pulls further ahead on IPOs

Read the update Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Sidley keeps raiding rivals' capital markets benches, and Latham loses two partners in a day

Read the update Monday, July 6, 2026

Paul Hastings grabs Cahill's private credit co-head, and Katten plants a flag in Miami

Read the update Friday, July 3, 2026

Big Law's hottest new job is a director of AI, and firms can't fill it

Read the update Thursday, July 2, 2026

Orrick lifts a six-lawyer fintech team out of Greenberg Traurig in Miami

Read the update Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Gordon Rees lifts out eight litigation partners in Northern California

Read the update Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Dechert pulls two special situations partners from Ropes & Gray

Read the update Monday, June 29, 2026

Debevoise pulls a Ropes & Gray finance partner, and Robins Kaplan grabs four ex-DOJ lawyers

Read the update Friday, June 26, 2026

Paul Weiss lands the partner who built Kirkland's restructuring practice

Read the update Thursday, June 25, 2026

Davis Polk pulls Hogan Lovells' M&A chief days before the Cadwalader merger closes

Read the update Wednesday, June 24, 2026

White & Case keeps buying, and Goodwin loses two partners in one day

Read the update Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Paul Hastings hits eight PE partners in eight months, and the deal-side wire stays hot

Read the update Friday, June 19, 2026

A finance co-head is reportedly headed to Dechert, and state AGs circle the Paramount deal

Read the update Thursday, June 18, 2026

Houston turns into a deal-lawyer dogfight, and firms race to staff up on dealmakers

Read the update Wednesday, June 17, 2026

Sidley pulls a finance partner out of Wachtell, and DC antitrust hiring runs hot

Read the update Tuesday, June 16, 2026

Skadden lifts an investment management group out of Akin, and funds hiring runs hot

Read the update Monday, June 15, 2026

California employment hiring heats up, and Paul Weiss draws a malpractice suit

Read the update Friday, June 12, 2026

McGuireWoods builds in Houston energy, and Ohio moves to rein in litigation finance

Read the update Thursday, June 11, 2026

Mayer Brown raids McGuireWoods again for Texas, and salaries keep climbing

Read the update Wednesday, June 10, 2026

The road to equity partner keeps narrowing, and Foley raids Sidley

Read the update Tuesday, June 9, 2026

Gibson Dunn buys its way to number two in M&A, and Taft lifts a team out of Stinson

Read the update Monday, June 8, 2026

The price of a rainmaker keeps climbing, and Gibson Dunn raids Kirkland

Read the update Friday, June 5, 2026

The IPO wave hits Big Law, and Willkie raids Goodwin

Read the update Thursday, June 4, 2026

Cooley raids Kirkland, and partner pay tops $40M

Read the update Wednesday, June 3, 2026

Weil at a crossroads, and a Paul Hastings poach

Read the update Tuesday, June 2, 2026

Paul Weiss pulls energy out of Akin Gump in Houston

Read the update Monday, June 1, 2026

Epstein Becker Green pulls six out of Manatt

Read the update Friday, May 29, 2026

Kirkland's $500M AI bet, and two named poaches

Read the update Thursday, May 28, 2026

A seven-hire New York day in BigLaw

Read the update Wednesday, May 27, 2026

A hiring list too long for one section

Read the update Tuesday, May 26, 2026

Private equity is moving into law firms

Read the update Monday, May 25, 2026

How one firm bought its way up the M&A rankings

Read the update Friday, May 22, 2026

A wave of partner moves, and a merger in the home stretch

Read the update Thursday, May 21, 2026

Paul Hastings pulls a partner from Paul Weiss

Read the update Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Where BigLaw is hiring right now

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