In today’s hot lateral legal market, attorneys who have spent their entire career at one law firm are no longer the norm.

There were nearly 9,000 lateral partner moves within the Am Law 200 in the five-year-span from 2014 through 2018, bringing an estimated $17.1 billion in total business with them. For perspective, revenue at Am Law 200 firms grew by $16.9 billion over that same time frame.