Associate hiring at the nation’s largest law firms grew by 3.6 percent in 2013 — the biggest year-over-year increase since 2008, before the recession decimated new lawyer hiring.

But don’t break out the bubbly. The legal industry isn’t returning to the go-go hiring days of the mid-2000s, when 5 percent annual associate increases were the norm.

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