{"id":114846,"date":"2025-04-14T15:54:56","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T23:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/14\/as-more-folks-enter-the-lateral-market-biglaw-slowing-down-recruitment\/"},"modified":"2025-04-14T15:54:56","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T23:54:56","slug":"as-more-folks-enter-the-lateral-market-biglaw-slowing-down-recruitment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/14\/as-more-folks-enter-the-lateral-market-biglaw-slowing-down-recruitment\/","title":{"rendered":"As More Folks Enter The Lateral Market Biglaw Slowing Down Recruitment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Wh<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"editor-post-featured-image__preview-image alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/01\/hire-me-sign-2-600x400.jpg?resize=479%2C319&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"319\" title=\"\">at we\u2019re hearing about is tremendous uncertainty and apprehension. Firms are taking time to reassess their internal priorities and planning, and that slows recruiting.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><span>\u2014 Lauren Drake, partner at the legal recruiting firm Macrae,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/web\/article\/big-law-firms-slowing-recruiting-and-hiring-amid-changing-political-landscape\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> told ABA Journal<\/a> that the Trump administration\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/executive-orders\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">attacks on Biglaw<\/a>, as well as, <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/02\/trumps-lawyers-burn-down-doj-in-bonfire-of-corruption\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">erm, massive changes in enforcement priorities<\/a>, have had a chilling effect on the industry\u2019s recruitment efforts. At a time <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/02\/its-not-a-great-time-to-be-a-lawyer-looking-for-a-job-in-d-c\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">when more and more<\/a> find themselves in need of a <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/04\/simpson-attorney-quits-after-firm-quits-on-rule-of-law\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">robust lateral market<\/a>, this is terrible news. <\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/04\/as-more-folks-enter-the-lateral-market-biglaw-slowing-down-recruitment\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">As More Folks Enter The Lateral Market Biglaw Slowing Down Recruitment<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wh<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"editor-post-featured-image__preview-image alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/abovethelaw.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2016\/01\/hire-me-sign-2-600x400.jpg?resize=479%2C319&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"319\" title=\"\">at we\u2019re hearing about is tremendous uncertainty and apprehension. Firms are taking time to reassess their internal priorities and planning, and that slows recruiting.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u2014 Lauren Drake, partner at the legal recruiting firm Macrae,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.abajournal.com\/web\/article\/big-law-firms-slowing-recruiting-and-hiring-amid-changing-political-landscape\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> told ABA Journal<\/a> that the Trump administration\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/tag\/executive-orders\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">attacks on Biglaw<\/a>, as well as, <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/02\/trumps-lawyers-burn-down-doj-in-bonfire-of-corruption\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">erm, massive changes in enforcement priorities<\/a>, have had a chilling effect on the industry\u2019s recruitment efforts. At a time <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/02\/its-not-a-great-time-to-be-a-lawyer-looking-for-a-job-in-d-c\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">when more and more<\/a> find themselves in need of a <a href=\"https:\/\/abovethelaw.com\/2025\/04\/simpson-attorney-quits-after-firm-quits-on-rule-of-law\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">robust lateral market<\/a>, this is terrible news. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What we\u2019re hearing about is tremendous uncertainty and apprehension. Firms are taking time to reassess their internal priorities and planning, and that slows recruiting. \u2014 Lauren Drake, partner at the legal recruiting firm Macrae, told ABA Journal that the Trump administration\u2019s attacks on Biglaw, as well as, erm, massive changes in enforcement priorities, have had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":114847,"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-114846","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\/04\/hire-me-sign-2-600x400-xpSZKU.jpeg?fit=600%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114846","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=114846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}