Finally, a week in which the lateral market takes a breather. As August grinds on, fewer and fewer firms announce new partner hires in Washington, D.C. That doesn’t mean we haven’t had a busy year thus far, and that the lateral market won’t spike again in September or toward year’s end.

Below are five of the most significant firm-to-firm moves in the nation’s capital through the first eight months of 2017, according to several local legal recruiters and our own data.