Photo: Ultramansk/Adobe Stock DC Partner Hiring at Elite Law Firms Lags Behind Other Key Legal Markets
Antitrust practice hiring is "going to be steady, but still be one of the highest lateral move categories that we see going into 2025," noted a Macrae recruiter.
October 21, 2024 at 04:34 PM
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What You Need to Know
- Lateral partner moves in DC for Am Law 50 and Magic Circle firms were down 15% through this September compared with last year.
- Antitrust, tax and litigation practice areas had less partner moves in DC this year.
- Meanwhile, investment management/funds, white-collar and energy practice had more moves this year in the market.
Lateral partner hiring in Washington, D.C., at elite law firms was down in the first three quarters of 2024 compared with last year and also lagged behind the hiring in other key legal markets, according to new lateral move data.
Overall, there were 113 lateral partner moves at Am Law 50 and Magic Circle firms through September 2024 in the D.C. market, down 15% from the 133 moves that were reported during the same period last year, according to a report by recruiting firm Macrae.
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Attorneys from A&O Shearman has stepped in as defense counsel for Toronto-Dominion Bank and other defendants in a pending securities class action. The suit, filed Dec. 11 in New York Southern District Court by Bleichmar Fonti & Auld, accuses the defendants of concealing the bank's 'pervasive' deficiencies in regards to its compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act and the quality of its anti-money laundering controls. The case, assigned to U.S. District Judge Arun Subramanian, is 1:24-cv-09445, Gonzalez v. The Toronto-Dominion Bank et al.
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