Lateral Hiring
 July 7, 2005

Despite a lot of talk by law firms of dumping their summer programs and focusing greater resources on laterals, firms continue to have a heavy focus on law school recruiting. In fact, NALP reports a small decrease in lateral hiring in all firms. Not surprisingly, under 100 lawyer firms hire 1.09 laterals for each law school hire while large firms (over 500 attorneys) hire .75 laterals for each law school hire.