In the 12 months ending Sept. 30, 2009, 2,775 partners left or joined the biggest firms in the country — a 10.6 percent increase in mobility over last year. Many firms were “opportunistic” about adding outsiders, and some of the same firms pushed partners out. Fortunately, partners who didn’t want to spend their afternoons playing Minesweeper on their BlackBerrys had time to check out the competition.
Litigation partners, representing 17 percent of all partner lateral moves, led the pack, followed by banking and finance lawyers at 15 percent, corporate attorneys at 10 percent, and intellectual property attorneys at 9 percent.
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