{"id":117108,"date":"2025-04-29T18:00:35","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T02:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/29\/free-market-free-for-all-how-the-decline-of-oci-broadened-big-laws-recruitment-poolmdashand-added-anxiety-2\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T18:00:35","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T02:00:35","slug":"free-market-free-for-all-how-the-decline-of-oci-broadened-big-laws-recruitment-poolmdashand-added-anxiety-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/04\/29\/free-market-free-for-all-how-the-decline-of-oci-broadened-big-laws-recruitment-poolmdashand-added-anxiety-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Market Free-For-All? How the Decline of OCI Broadened Big Law’s Recruitment Pool—and Added Anxiety"},"content":{"rendered":"

Top-ranked law schools sent the most students to top-performing law firms in profits per lawyer, but firms ranked outside the top 50 by U.S. News sent nearly twice as many students to those most profitable firms in 2024 as they did in 2020.<\/p>\n

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Top-ranked law schools sent the most students to top-performing law firms in profits per lawyer, but firms ranked outside the top 50 by U.S. News sent nearly twice as many students to those most profitable firms in 2024 as they did in 2020.<\/p>\n

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Top-ranked law schools sent the most students to top-performing law firms in profits per lawyer, but firms ranked outside the top 50 by U.S. News sent nearly twice as many students to those most profitable firms in 2024 as they did in 2020. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Top-ranked law schools sent the most students to top-performing law firms […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":116939,"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":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-117108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/legal-news-v4DGnq.jpeg?fit=767%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117108","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=117108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117108\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}