{"id":125845,"date":"2025-07-08T04:03:15","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T12:03:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/08\/some-biglaw-lateral-hires-really-arent-that-great\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T04:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T12:03:15","slug":"some-biglaw-lateral-hires-really-arent-that-great","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/07\/08\/some-biglaw-lateral-hires-really-arent-that-great\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Biglaw Lateral Hires Really Aren\u2019t That Great"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Growth through laterals and even groups, net of retirements and other departures, is slow and expensive and error-prone. When we ask firms to candidly give us a sense of what percent of the time laterals are successful, the candid answer is between one in two or one in three.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Kent Zimmermann, a law firm advisor with the Zeughauser Group, in comments given to Law.com<\/a>, on the overall riskiness involved in lateral hiring as a law firm growth strategy. <\/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<\/p>\n

The post Some Biglaw Lateral Hires Really Aren\u2019t That Great<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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

Growth through laterals and even groups, net of retirements and other departures, is slow and expensive and error-prone. When we ask firms to candidly give us a sense of what percent of the time laterals are successful, the candid answer is between one in two or one in three.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2014 <\/i>Kent Zimmermann, a law firm advisor with the Zeughauser Group, in comments given to Law.com<\/a>, on the overall riskiness involved in lateral hiring as a law firm growth strategy. <\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ed. note: Welcome to our daily feature, Quote of the Day. Growth through laterals and even groups, net of retirements and other departures, is slow and expensive and error-prone. When we ask firms to candidly give us a sense of what percent of the time laterals are successful, the candid answer is between one in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":125770,"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-125845","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\/07\/Staci-Zaretsky-EDUrhq.jpeg?fit=150%2C100&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125845","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=125845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}