Partner lateral moves neared last year’s historic hiring pace in the second quarter of 2023, while associate lateral moves continued to lag behind as law firms work to reshape their workforce, according to newly released data from Decipher Investigative Intelligence.

The second quarter of this year was the second busiest for partner moves from 2017 to 2023, with 1,265 moves, just 4% below the 1,322 moves in the second quarter of 2022, according to Decipher.