Editor’s note: A version of this story was published in December 2018 as “The Boomerang Effect: You Can Go Home Again.”

Mariah McGrogan had been a labor and employment attorney with Reed Smith in Pittsburgh for two years when she left to join the employment firm Jackson Lewis in August 2016. She wanted to try out the employment law specialty model. Two years later, she was already back with Reed Smith, joining a host of lawyers returning like boomerangs to their prior firms in a heated lateral market.