Fewer US Lawyers Jumping Ship

Fewer partners in the US are jumping ship, according to a report from Courtroom Confidential.  For the 12-month period ending in September, 2,014 partners left or joined firms in The American Lawyer’s Top 200, a 27 percent decrease from the 2,775 moves a year earlier, according to the article. So what does this mean for the legal profession? As the article points out, the change could be a result of the high number of firms that folded in 2009, which naturally led partners to change firms. Some law firm managers said the statistics could be an indication of the economic instability in the legal world over the past few years.

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