{"id":118858,"date":"2025-05-13T07:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T15:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/13\/partners-hesitant-to-leave-biglaw-firms-that-capitulated-to-trump-because-what-if-the-next-firm-does-it-too\/"},"modified":"2025-05-13T07:02:30","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T15:02:30","slug":"partners-hesitant-to-leave-biglaw-firms-that-capitulated-to-trump-because-what-if-the-next-firm-does-it-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/05\/13\/partners-hesitant-to-leave-biglaw-firms-that-capitulated-to-trump-because-what-if-the-next-firm-does-it-too\/","title":{"rendered":"Partners Hesitant To Leave Biglaw Firms That Capitulated To Trump \u2014 Because What If The Next Firm Does It Too?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

We received calls from partners who were disappointed in their firm\u2019s decision, but in most cases, it didn\u2019t move past venting to us and deciding to hold tight. They realized that leaving a firm because of an agreement could have massive ramifications if the new firm they join ended up doing the same.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Dan Binstock, a recruiter and partner at Garrison, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, on why partners at the nine Biglaw firms that capitulated to the Trump administration<\/a> are staying put for now as opposed to attempting to make lateral moves. Recruiter Jeffrey Lowe, market president of Washington, D.C., for CenterPeak, agreed with Binstock, telling Am Law, \u201cWhile it\u2019s easy for them to identify the firms that are directly fighting the orders, there is a concern that they move from one firm that has settled with the administration to another firm that hasn\u2019t done anything yet, but might in the future.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/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

The post Partners Hesitant To Leave Biglaw Firms That Capitulated To Trump \u2014 Because What If The Next Firm Does It Too?<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

We received calls from partners who were disappointed in their firm\u2019s decision, but in most cases, it didn\u2019t move past venting to us and deciding to hold tight. They realized that leaving a firm because of an agreement could have massive ramifications if the new firm they join ended up doing the same.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 Dan Binstock, a recruiter and partner at Garrison, in comments given to the American Lawyer<\/a>, on why partners at the nine Biglaw firms that capitulated to the Trump administration<\/a> are staying put for now as opposed to attempting to make lateral moves. Recruiter Jeffrey Lowe, market president of Washington, D.C., for CenterPeak, agreed with Binstock, telling Am Law, \u201cWhile it\u2019s easy for them to identify the firms that are directly fighting the orders, there is a concern that they move from one firm that has settled with the administration to another firm that hasn\u2019t done anything yet, but might in the future.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/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

The post Partners Hesitant To Leave Biglaw Firms That Capitulated To Trump \u2014 Because What If The Next Firm Does It Too?<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. We received calls from partners who were disappointed in their firm\u2019s decision, but in most cases, it didn\u2019t move past venting to us and deciding to hold tight. They realized that leaving a firm because of an agreement could have massive ramifications if the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":118795,"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-118858","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\/05\/Staci-Zaretsky-K4xAjd.jpeg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118858","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=118858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}