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Do-It-Yourself Lateral Hiring

Many firms believe that adding laterals is the easiest and least risky means to law firm growth. However, the reality is that many laterals (more than half in some firms) never achieve their promise or objectives in terms of bringing clients and revenue to the firm.

22 minute read June 21, 2010 at 01:50 PM
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Eric Seeger
Do-It-Yourself Lateral Hiring

Just over half of the 218 law firms that responded to Altman Weil's new Law Firms in Transition Survey (released June 2010) said they are being more aggressive about increasing lawyer head count in 2010 than they were in 2009.

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