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Mark Lewis, the managing partner of Bracewell's office in Washington, D.C., likes to talk about his experience with legal headhunters. They call him a lot—both because he's looking to hire laterals, and because they would like to poach away his oil and gas transactional practice, he said.

A headhunter call intending the latter woke up Lewis about a year ago. He essentially told the headhunter, “Why don't you try to help me at Bracewell rather than get me to move?” Lewis recalls the headhunter saying, “I've asked around, but that sale would be hard.”