{"id":107266,"date":"2025-01-30T17:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T01:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/01\/30\/trump-ties-are-hot-in-todays-biglaw-lateral-market\/"},"modified":"2025-01-30T17:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T01:03:08","slug":"trump-ties-are-hot-in-todays-biglaw-lateral-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/01\/30\/trump-ties-are-hot-in-todays-biglaw-lateral-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Ties Are Hot In Today\u2019s Biglaw Lateral Market"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

[T]here\u2019s a high demand [for lawyers with Trump ties]. I even had somebody\u2026 who\u2019s at a law firm tell me that he\u2019s gotten more client work because of that, because of the perception that he\u2019s really going to have good access into the administration and decision making going on right now.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>\u00a0Justine Donahue, a D.C.-based recruiter at Macrae, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, on the hot lateral market for former administration officials from Donald Trump\u2019s first term, as Biglaw firms attempt to leverage their government experience in client pitches.<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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(Photo by Joe Raedle\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ed. note<\/u>: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

[T]here\u2019s a high demand [for lawyers with Trump ties]. I even had somebody\u2026 who\u2019s at a law firm tell me that he\u2019s gotten more client work because of that, because of the perception that he\u2019s really going to have good access into the administration and decision making going on right now.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>\u00a0Justine Donahue, a D.C.-based recruiter at Macrae, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, on the hot lateral market for former administration officials from Donald Trump\u2019s first term, as Biglaw firms attempt to leverage their government experience in client pitches.<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Staci Zaretsky<\/a>\u00a0is a senior editor at Above the Law, where she\u2019s worked since 2011. She\u2019d love to hear from you, so please feel free to email<\/a> her with any tips, questions, comments, or critiques. You can follow her on\u00a0Bluesky<\/a>,\u00a0X\/Twitter<\/a>, and\u00a0Threads<\/a>,\u00a0or connect with her on\u00a0LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Photo by Joe Raedle\/Getty Images) Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. [T]here\u2019s a high demand [for lawyers with Trump ties]. I even had somebody\u2026 who\u2019s at a law firm tell me that he\u2019s gotten more client work because of that, because of the perception that he\u2019s really going to have […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":107267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Staci-Zaretsky-xs82A0.jpeg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}