Washington Wrap is a weekly roundup of Big Law hires and other Washington, D.C., legal industry news. Read the previous edition here. Send tips and lateral moves to Katelyn Polantz at [email protected].

Ah, summer in Washington. Along with stifling humidity comes hot flashes of news, headache-inducing computer outages and the evaporation of sources and ideas.

Due to an inclement mix of the above, your Washington Wrap this week must be truncated. But before the lateral and news roundups, consider these findings from National Law Journal magazine. The NLJ 500, our annual survey of law firm head count, revealed how firms may be rethinking a “grow, grow, grow strategy,” how immigration and labor boutiques are winners in lawyer diversity, and how Los Angeles puts Washington to shame among the top hot markets. We also made a podcast about our findings–now part of ALM's collection of audio adventures. And we highlighted four firms that experienced expansions and declines differently last year. The full data set for the NLJ 500 is here, and the ranking of gender diversity at firms is here.