THE CHARTS
Top-Gaining Firms: Lateral Partner Hires
Firms With the Biggest Losses: Partner Defections
Staying Put
The Great Recession led to a ten-year low in lateral partner moves.
How'm I Doing?
A new survey assesses partners' satisfaction with their pay--and lets them compare their compensation to peers across the country.
China From the Inside
More and more, Western partners are making the once-unthinkable jump to Chinese firms. Call it the ultimate expat experience.
The Lateral All-Stars
The most significant partner moves of 2010.
OUR METHODOLOGY
The Lateral Report covers partner moves in and out of Am Law 200 firms between October 1, 2009, and September 30, 2010. We tracked 2,014 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 position in business, government, or education, or joined a firm as a partner from one of those fields. Lateral moves are counted when one firm acquires another, but not when two firms merge and combine names.
