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On the Move
Partners coming from and going to Am Law 200 firms.
On the MovePartners coming from and going to Am Law 200 firmsThe Lateral Report covers partner moves in and out of The Am Law 200 between October 1, 2006, and September 30, 2007. We tracked 2,423 moves during this period. We count firm-to-firm moves if a lawyer was a partner in the former firm and is a partner at the new firm. We also count moves if a partner left for a legal job in business, government, or academia, or joined a firm as a partner from one of those fields. Lateral moves are counted when one firm acquired another, but not when two firms merged and combined their names. If a firm has dissolved, we only count moves when the new employers are known. Dissolved firms are not included on our most departures chart. Submit press releases on lateral moves to laterals@alm.com. ¿Research by Tom Broucksou
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| Top Gains | |||
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| Firm | Lateral partner hires | Laterals arriving in groups of five or more came from: | Others came from: |
| Greenberg Traurig | 60 | Solomon and Weinberg (6) | Firms (43), corporations (3), government (3) |
| McDermott Will & Emery | 59 | Wallenstein & Wagner (5) | Firms (45), corporations (2), government (7) |
| Hunton & Williams | 58 | Jenkens & Gilchrist (48) | Firms (7), government (3) |
| Littler Mendelson | 57 | Duvin, Cahn & Hutton (20), Fisher & Phillips (5) | Firms (31), corporation (1) |
| Reed Smith | 51 | Richards & Butler (15), Sachnoff & Weaver (13) | Firms (23) |
| Bingham McCutchen | 48 | Alschuler Grossman (19), New Tokyo International (7), Sakai & Mimura (6) | Firms (12), corporations (2), government (2) |
| Duane Morris | 36 | N/A | Firms (33), corporations (2), government (1) |
| Howrey | 35 | N/A | Firms (25), corporations (5), government (3), universities (2) |
| Davis Wright Tremaine | 30 | Cole, Raywid & Braverman (18) | Firms (12) |
| Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart | 30 | Lewis Fisher Henderson & Claxton (7) | Firms (23) |
| Baker & McKenzie | 29 | Asahi Koma Law Offices (5) | Firms (20), corporations (2), government (2) |
| DLA Piper US | 29 | Squire, Sanders & Dempsey (5) | Firms (23), government (1) |
| Crowell & Moring | 27 | King Pagano Harrison (9) | Firms (16), government (2) |
| Dewey Ballantine1 | 27 | N/A | Firms (24), corporations (3) |
| Venable | 27 | N/A | Firms (17), corporations (2), government (8) |
| Blank Rome | 26 | Healy & Baillie (13) | Firms (7), corporation (1), government (4), not-for-profit (1) |
| Goodwin Procter | 26 | Hunton & Williams (7) | Firms (17), corporations (2) |
| Nixon Peabody | 25 | Jenkens & Gilchrist (8) | Firms (15), corporation (1), government (1) |
| Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis2 | 24 | Taylor Wessing (8) | Firms (15), corporation (1) |
| Winstead | 24 | Jenkens & Gilchrist (15) | Firms (8), government (1) |
| Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal | 23 | N/A | Firms (19), government (4) |
| Holland & Knight | 22 | N/A | Firms (18), corporations (2), government (2) |
| Pepper Hamilton | 22 | Dechert (5) | Firms (16), corporation (1) |
| Perkins Coie | 21 | N/A | Firms (18), government (3) |
| Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld | 20 | N/A | Firms (14), corporations (2), government (4) |
| 1 Dewey Ballantine and LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae merged in October 2007. Lateral moves are reported separately for each firm because the merger took place after our survey period. | |||
| 2 Kirkpatrick & Lockhart merged with Preston Gates & Ellis in January 2007. | |||
| Biggest Losses | |||
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| Firm | Departing partners (% all partners)* | Departures to Am Law 200 firms | Where the rest went: |
| Mayer Brown | 55 (9%) | 33 | Other firms (9), corporations (11), government (1), other (1) |
| Reed Smith | 51 (11%) | 21 | Other firms (15), corporations (11), government (2), other (2) |
| Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis1 | 40 (7%) | 25 | Other firms (11), corporations (3), government (1) |
| Alston & Bird | 30 (10%) | 20 | Other firms (6), corporations (4) |
| Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney | 30 (11%) | 12 | Other firms (13), corporations (5) |
| King & Spalding | 29 (11%) | 27 | Other firm (1), government (1) |
| Hogan & Hartson | 28 (6%) | 6 | Other firms (7), corporations (8), government (5), not-for-profit (1), other (1) |
| Baker & Hostetler | 27 (8%) | 10 | Other firms (11), corporations (4), government (2) |
| Bingham McCutchen | 26 (7%) | 15 | Other firms (4), corporations (6), government (1) |
| Greenberg Traurig | 24 (3%) | 19 | Other firms (5) |
| Hunton & Williams | 24 (7%) | 13 | Other firm (1), corporations (8), government (1), judiciary (1) |
| DLA Piper US | 23 (4%) | 20 | Other firms (3) |
| Latham & Watkins | 22 (4%) | 13 | Other firms (5), corporations (2), government (1), other (1) |
| Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal | 22 (6%) | 21 | Other firm (1) |
| Heller Ehrman | 21 (7%) | 8 | Other firms (4), corporations (8), not-for-profit (1) |
| Akerman Senterfitt | 20 (8%) | 6 | Other firms (10), corporations (2), government (1), other (1) |
| Dewey Ballantine2 | 20 (16%) | 20 | N/A |
| Morrison & Foerster | 20 (6%) | 6 | Other firms (12), corporation (1), university (1) |
| Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner3 | 20 (7%) | 19 | Other firm (1) |
| * Percentages are based on the number of partners reported to The National Law Journal at the start of the survey (October 1, 2006). | |||
| 1 Kirkpatrick & Lockhart merged with Preston Gates & Ellis in January 2007. | |||
| 2 Dewey Ballantine and LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae merged in October 2007. Lateral moves are reported separately for each firm because the merger took place after our survey period. | |||
| 3 Thelen Reid & Priest merged with Brown Raysman Millstein Felder & Steiner in December 2006. | |||
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| Practice Areas | |
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| Practice Area | Percentage of Laterals* |
| Corporate | 15% |
| Litigation | 13% |
| Intellectual Property | 9% |
| Labor and Employment | 9% |
| Real Estate/Construction | 8% |
| Banking/Finance | 6% |
| Tax | 5% |
| Business | 4% |
| Bankruptcy | 4% |
| Commercial | 3% |
| Government | 3% |
| * The total will not equal 100 percent, as we included only areas that represented 3 percent or more of the overall number of moves. | |
(The American Lawyer, February 2008)
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