Great Reputation — No Business: How to Jumpstart Laterals Lacking BD Experience

The lateral market — attorneys moving from one firm to another — continues to be red hot. Widespread acceptance of remote working has opened up new possibilities for those candidates who are not physically in the major markets. “We have not seen this level of lateral move activity in many years,” said David Ris, a recruiter at the McCormick Group. “Further, the pace of government lawyers moving to private practice is well above what we typically see following a change in administration.” Yet the hiring process is still fraught with danger, with red flags lurking behind the scenes; often not caught before the new partner joins the firm. As I wrote this time last year, the chance that your new partner will be with the firm in two years from the starting time is a coin flip — 50/50.

To read more, click here for the original article published in PinHawk’s Legal Administrator Daily on July 6, 2021: https://legaladmin.pinhawk.com/article/great-reputation-no-business-how-to-jumpstart-laterals-lacking-bd-experience.html.